David Schwimmer Quotes

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

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• When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Why
  • Society
  • Health

• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Meat

• I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Shame

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Job

• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Habit
  • Speech

• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Like
  • Learned

• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Will
  • Caring
  • Walk

• 'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Art
  • War
  • Story

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Me
  • Person
  • Hell

• At least I can say that I'm honest.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Say
  • Honest
  • I Can

• I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Freedom

• I don't have the time to design my own costumes, but I do give suggestions and style tips.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Time
  • Style
  • Design

• Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Time
  • America
  • Interesting