David Spade Quotes

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

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• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Design

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Thought
  • Years
  • System

• In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Together

• When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

  

  Imelda May
  • Sun
  • Mad
  • Heard

• I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Style
  • Challenge

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • God
  • Day
  • Cold

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • People
  • Kids
  • Want

• That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Long
  • Together
  • Best

• I don't want to do only blockbusters.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Only
  • Blockbusters

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Money
  • Rest

• When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • College
  • Day
  • Ambition

• If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.

  

  Iman
  • Deep
  • Situation
  • Walk

• Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Black
  • Learn
  • Perspective

• I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Books
  • Prize
  • Mysteries

• I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.

  

  Elisabeth Rohm
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Justice

• You can be non-judgmental, but you don't want to be non-discerning because, remember, the force of evolution is the conversation, you know: two truths standing up to each other in conversation, and the best truth emerges, and the best truth prevails.

  

  James Redfield
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

  

  David Spade
  • Country
  • Fly