Tommy Davidson Quotes

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

Tommy Davidson

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• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Time
  • Confidence
  • Picture

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • People
  • Dress
  • Observation

• And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Believe
  • Law
  • I Believe

• It doesn't matter to me if someone is a Republican or a Democrat, I'm going to be the governor for all Marylanders.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Me
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Faith
  • Jesus
  • Commitment

• 'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Stupid

• Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Earth
  • Die
  • Sea

• I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Writing
  • Book

• I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Challenge

• I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

  

  David A. Siegel
  • Doubt

• It's important to read books and see people who look like you. It helps you know that you are not the only one or the weird one because you're a black girl and you are not seeing anyone who looks like you in these books.

  

  Marley Dias
  • People
  • Important
  • Black

• I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

  

  Alice Paul
  • Book

• Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Hatred
  • Seek

• We were always skating on thin ice, Shaking the wrong dice, Swimming against the tide, Playing on the wrong side, Yes you were the player, and you were so cool, I was the greenhorn, King of the fools, Painting the picture, to fit with the frame, Chan.

  

  Keith Reid Procol Harum
  • Player
  • King
  • Skating

• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Child

• We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Needs
  • Narrative
  • Catechism

• I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.

  

  Jon Ossoff
  • Political
  • Beginning

• Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

  

  Tommy Davidson
  • Night
  • Comedy
  • Needs