Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes
I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
-
I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
-
I brought several national projects to Katihar.
-
We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
-
The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
-
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
-
I miss baseball.
-
If you're not in it you can't win it.
-
You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
-
What's really good is African drum music.
-
I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.
-
It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
-
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
-
I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
-
I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
-
I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
-
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
-
Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
-
History: A distillation of rumor.
-
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
-
When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.
-
When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
-
I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.
