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

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Death

• I never view myself as a leader.

  

  Jeff Hardy

• Everyone who comes to my show has their own struggles. There's so many people dealing with so many things; I love that I get to be part of their healing process by making them laugh.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Healing

• Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

  

  Luis von Ahn
  • People
  • Home
  • College

• First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Music
  • Night
  • Sexy

• Every law is an infraction of liberty.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Law

• When you have the demand, you can change the government policies that create McDonald's and junk food.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Food

• I never had a plan; I always follow my intuition.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Intuition

• People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

  

  Amanda Hocking
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Words are so important to us, so vital to our beings, that we sometimes take this gift of ours for granted. We shouldn’t—words are too powerful to take for granted.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Important
  • Words
  • Powerful

• One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Important
  • Amazing
  • Moments

• It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!

  

  Amelia Warner
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Choice

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

  

  Dave Allen
  • God
  • Thank You
  • Goodnight