David Zucker Quotes

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

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• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Job
  • Look
  • Said

• We must defend what we have achieved so far.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Achieved
  • Far
  • Defend

• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Year
  • Name
  • Prison

• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Evidence
  • Defense
  • Funeral

• I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Sexy
  • Classy

• The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Soccer

• Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Change
  • Something
  • Expected

• There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Opinion
  • Difference
  • Islam

• When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Road
  • Take

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Nice
  • Fact
  • Diamond

• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Process

• Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Character

• I just want to compete and do what I love.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Love
  • Want
  • Just

• I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Character
  • Play
  • Hollywood

• It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Interesting
  • Cutting
  • Touch

• And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Time
  • Value
  • Lines

• In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Love
  • Society
  • Hate

• My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Truth
  • Study
  • Fool

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

  

  David Zucker