Dave Allen Quotes

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• I love cooking and baking.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Baking

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • American
  • America
  • High

• All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Time
  • Art
  • Effort

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • Control

• For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Character
  • Reality
  • Me

• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up
  • High
  • Strong

• A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Remember
  • Peace

• There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Success
  • Japanese

• Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Soul
  • Diamond

• Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

  

  Andres Segovia
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Support

• The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

  

  Mary Catherine Bateson
  • Democracy
  • Commitment

• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Miracle

• My little yorkie Floyd is the ultimate buddy, and his passport has as many stamps as mine.

  

  Jessica Hart

• It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

  

  Elizabeth A. Sherman

• Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Numbers

• I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One democratic state. He declared one offer, I am declaring the other offer. With two communities.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Live

• Don't plan with what is in your pocket; plan with what is in God's pocket

  

  Reinhard Bonnke
  • God
  • Plan
  • Pocket

• That men should pray and fight for their own freedom, and yet keep others in slavery, is certainly acting a very inconsistent, as well as unjust and, perhaps, impious part, but the history of mankind is filled with instances of human improprieties.

  

  John Jay
  • Men
  • History
  • Freedom

• Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you.

  

  Dave Allen
  • God
  • Thank You
  • Goodnight