David Dellinger Quotes

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

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• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • True
  • Nature
  • Moral

• I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Rain
  • Confession

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Songs

• The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Society
  • Opportunities

• As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Money

• For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Plants

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Know
  • Opinions

• I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Me

• We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May

• I'm just me. I'm that cool girl who - as I like to say, I have that Carson Daly effect, where, if you watched 'TRL,' he was able to do interviews with NSYNC, blend right in, and then he would do interviews with Cash Money and blend in there, and you just naturally liked him.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Money
  • Girl
  • Cool

• I want to wear things that make me feel good.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Good

• Our goal should be to understand our differences.

  

  James D. Watson

• We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Together
  • Small

• Judicial activism must be lessened, and the judiciary should do its work and let politicians work.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • Work

• I'm a big guy, but I play with a guard mentality. I got that from my dad, and it's always stayed with me.

  

  Ben Simmons
  • Guy
  • Dad

• I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Basketball
  • Plans

• The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • American
  • Girl
  • Door

• I play no instruments.

  

  Clive Davis

• I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Pledge
  • No-doughnut

• There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

  

  David Dellinger
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