Dave Cook Quotes

I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

Dave Cook

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Lost

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Career
  • Way
  • Cooking

• However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.

  

  E. W. Howe

• The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Done

• I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Great
  • Done

• I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Life

• I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes

• I love dressing up. As kids, my friends and I would dress up as the Spice Girls - Posh Spice was my favourite because I had short brown hair like her.

  

  Eliza Doolittle
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Friends

• It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

  

  James Worthy
  • Long
  • Game

• We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Great
  • Done
  • Simple

• I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • School
  • High

• I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.

  

  Kenny Ortega
  • Prom

• Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Money
  • Crazy
  • Brain

• I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Important
  • Identity
  • Lying

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or barbaric to listen to the voices of the souls of the world, and so the heart and the nobility of an entire way of life dried up and withered away.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

  

  William Pepper
  • Criminal
  • Trial
  • Subpoenaed

• I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

  

  Dave Cook
  • Brain
  • Lying
  • Century