David Walliams Quotes

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David Walliams

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• If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Up
  • Power
  • Political

• My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Job
  • Professional
  • First

• There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Different
  • Same

• You have a lot of great teams in the NBA. I watched San Antonio against Dallas, and they're two great teams, and there are great teams in the east, as well. So it takes time to gel, as we've all seen.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Time
  • Great
  • You

• Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Said
  • Loved
  • Clothing

• In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • School
  • History
  • High

• India has a very good tradition in tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Tradition

• A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Efficiency

• I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

  

  Iain Banks
  • Great
  • Nothing
  • Fact

• Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • People
  • Right
  • Need

• At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Week

• When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Family
  • My Life

• There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Money
  • Feeling

• There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Le malheur est que, parfois, des souhaits s'accomplissent, afin que se perpétue le supplice de l'espérance.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Time
  • Work

• In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • Freedom
  • Police

• 'I shall soon be rested,' said Fanny; 'to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.'

  

  Jane Austen
  • Perfect

• I strongly believe that the best economic policy for any administration is the one that seeks to produce more entrepreneurs, not just more minimally educated college graduates with nowhere to go. Nothing against recent college graduates, but many of today’s best universities are no longer providing the basics of a classical liberal education. “I strongly believe that the best economic policy for any administration is the one that seeks to produce more entrepreneurs, not just more minimally educated college graduates with nowhere to go. Nothing against recent college graduates, but many of today’s best universities are no longer providing the basics of a classical liberal education. That is why the single most important economic issue of our time—and one that impacts the poor and middle class alike—will be how we treat the entrepreneurs and wealth creators among us, from both the government and the private-sector viewpoints.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Entrepreneurs

• The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Daughter

• I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Up
  • Music
  • Home

• Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Song
  • Mistake
  • Clever

• I love wearing drag.

  

  David Walliams