David Selby Quotes

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Life
  • Me
  • Army

• To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Live
  • Future
  • Control

• Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Together
  • Kiss
  • Rose

• What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Age
  • Sad
  • Find

• I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Life
  • Tough
  • Mouth

• There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Great
  • Children
  • Best

• From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Walk

• So you have to take the good with the bad.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Good
  • Bad
  • You

• It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Nonsense

• The most successful people are so original.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Successful
  • Original

• On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • History
  • December

• My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Creativity
  • Humor
  • Gift

• In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it - but men were different. A man like B - like Alfie, too - never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

  

  Don Nickles
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• The book is a private confessional form that provides a 'point of view.'

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Book

• Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Fans
  • Generosity
  • Demand

• When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

  

  David Selby