Douglas Davis (Doug E. Fresh) Quotes

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Douglas Davis

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• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Music
  • Style
  • Find

• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Friends
  • Road

• I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Focus

• An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Think

• I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Believe
  • Tell

• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Respect
  • Mean
  • Relationships

• I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Want
  • Well-Rounded

• We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • World
  • Character
  • Impact

• Death does not exist.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Exist
  • Does

• Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Society
  • Free
  • Fear

• As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Work
  • Great
  • Believe

• As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Work
  • Understand
  • Hard Work

• I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Age

• Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Greatness

• If anything extraordinary seems to have happened, we can always say that we have been the victims of an illusion. If we hold a philosophy which excludes the supernatural, this is what we always shall say.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Supernatural

• But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • People
  • Remember
  • Wish

• Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.

  

  April Gornik
  • Painting
  • Sunday
  • Lazy

• There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Passion

• The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.

  

  Dave Blood
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• You respect people you grew up around.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • People
  • Up
  • Respect

• Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • Time

• I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

  

  Douglas Davis