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

• 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

• This is a medical service. It always was.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Service

• I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Question
  • Wonder
  • Loyalty

• I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• Everyday I look forward to bringing a few laughs, giving a little advice and making people feel good about themselves.

  

  Alli Simpson
  • Advice
  • Everyday
  • Laughs

• Various irregular forces are operating on their own. It's easy for them not to follow the higher-ups.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
  • Follow
  • Forces
  • Operating

• Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

  

  Whittaker Chambers
  • Made
  • Differences
  • Expected

• 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