David Baddiel Quotes

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Country
  • Night

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • School
  • Team
  • Chess

• I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Government

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• Right now, there is no way that the federal government can prevent someone who's on the terror watch list from buying a gun - none.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Government
  • Gun
  • Now

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Decision

• The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

  

  Ben Carson

• I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Coffee

• I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Life
  • Intimacy

• False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Long

• We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

  

  Donald Berwick
  • Good
  • Health
  • Choices

• Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.

  

  Frei Otto
  • World
  • Today
  • Space

• I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Writing

• The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • World
  • Safety
  • Chaos

• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Superpowers
  • Perfect vision

• My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Natural
  • Collaboration
  • Mission

• My district goes a long ways across the southern part of Ohio, so just the opportunity to get to know so many people is a highlight itself, win or lose.

  

  Brad Wenstrup
  • People
  • Long
  • Opportunity

• I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • English
  • Speak
  • Spanish

• Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

  

  David Baddiel
  • Profound
  • Clever
  • Anatomy