David Denby Quotes

Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.

David Denby

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• My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Game
  • Funny

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Way
  • Like
  • Shadow

• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Think
  • Person

• I can’t die, he most famously liked to say. It would ruin my image.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Die

• A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Time

• Opportunity makes a thief.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opportunity

• These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

  

  Kevin Ayers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Rest

• Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Hope

• All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Words

• Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People

• I like a girl with a good personality that I can have fun with. If I am taking you out on a date, let's eat burgers and cheese fries.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Girl

• I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

  

  Jane Harman

• I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.

  

  Mark Takano
  • Gay

• There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Up
  • World
  • Peace

• Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Perfection
  • Imperfection
  • Dull

• I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

  

  Kevin James
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I've cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn't trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I'm pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Trust

• Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.

  

  David Denby
  • Thinking
  • Intelligent
  • Rivers