David Abram Quotes

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

David Abram

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• I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Nice

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • You
  • Nice
  • Hands

• I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • American

• We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Democracy

• You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Long
  • History

• I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Trying
  • Remember

• If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Health

• Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

  

  Janet Reno

• You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Different
  • Small

• Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • Country
  • Legend

• I am not gonna engage in a debate that Michael Jackson could be the biological father of any of those kids. I'm not havin it, not tonight. There's no way. Those kids are Whitey, Whitey McGee and Whitey McWhiterson!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Kids
  • Father

• Good taste is as tiring as good company.

  

  Francis Picabia
  • Good

• You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.

  

  Nia Long
  • Words
  • Passion
  • Commitment

• No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.

  

  Hank Williams
  • World
  • Struggle

• I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • World
  • Good
  • Different

• I write the most sexiest records out.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Writing
  • Records
  • Sexiest

• The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Christian

• When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way. Uta Hagen said this, "In my life, I see myself as just this, you know, kind of flamboyant, kind of sexy middle-aged woman. And then I see myself onscreen, and I go 'Oh my God.'" And it's the same thing with me. I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't!

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

  

  David Abram
  • Thinking
  • Animal
  • Relation