Douglas Davis (Doug E. Fresh) Quotes

When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • America
  • Health

• I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Hate
  • Bunch

• Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • People
  • Lifestyle
  • Finding

• The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Growing

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Trying
  • House

• I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Team

• I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Power
  • Style

• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Men
  • Know
  • Best

• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Great
  • Men
  • Bad

• In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Work
  • Education
  • Respect

• When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Elephant

• After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

  

  David Twohy
  • Movie

• When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • People