Dave Smalley Quotes

Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

Dave Smalley

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• Energy
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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Do The Right Thing

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

  

  Walter Brennan
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Never

• I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Small
  • Church
  • Nebraska

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• When you're rich you don't write checks.

  

  Randy Moss
  • You
  • Write
  • Rich

• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Black
  • Wish

• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • Culture
  • Gangster

• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Old

• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Lucky
  • Very
  • Been

• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Know
  • Write
  • Start

• Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Anger

• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Free
  • Evil
  • King

• For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Sexy

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Learning

• People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Politics
  • Tired

• I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

  

  Anne Baxter
  • Good
  • Failure
  • Motivational

• You have inside you the capacity to invest your mental, emotional, and spiritual gifts in a way that glorifies God, impacts the world, and satisfies your own soul. I believe that-and I want you to believe it, too.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

  

  Dave Smalley
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Energy