Donald Davis Quotes

I was very lucky on several accounts as you can imagine. Don't let my fears of that event come true in your life.

Donald Davis

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Book

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Again

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Father
  • Parent

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• I don't move away from grief, rather through it.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Grief
  • Move
  • Rather

• A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Technology

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • Country
  • True

• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Measure

• A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Soul
  • Fire

• For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

  

  Anagarika Govinda
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Ego

• In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

  

  Jorge Paulo Lemann
  • Life
  • Long

• A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • Time
  • Black
  • Small

• I was very lucky on several accounts as you can imagine. Don't let my fears of that event come true in your life.

  

  Donald Davis
  • Life
  • True
  • Come