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

• One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

  

  Luis Walter Alvarez

• 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

• If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Good
  • Find
  • Creative

• I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Men
  • War
  • Peace

• The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • God
  • Important
  • Art

• I consider protecting all students, including LGBTQ students, not only a key priority for the Department, but for every school in America.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • School
  • America
  • Priority

• If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 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