David Wells Quotes

I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

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• I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Street

• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Mission

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Work
  • Winning

• By and large my relations with the US were good.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Good
  • U.S.
  • Large

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Now
  • Become
  • Destroy

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Want
  • Comedy

• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Process

• Every note is a lifetime for itself.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Lifetime
  • Itself
  • Note

• I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Forever

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hand

• Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • School

• Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Community

• Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Share
  • Little
  • Much

• On Sundays, I'm up at five and in the office by six. After the show, around midday, I flip the switch, and it's all family. Our kids play sports, so we're running around.

  

  David Gregory
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama. Nope, still can't get used to it. It's literally too good to be true. I must've died in my sleep and am now having an insane fantasy pumped into my head by the Matrix. Any minute now Salma Hayek is going to float through the door with a tray of biscuits and I'll know the game's up.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Up
  • Good
  • True

• Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Knowledge
  • Reading
  • Bible

• I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

  

  David Wells
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