David Foreman Quotes
The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
-
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
-
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
-
Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
-
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
-
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
-
I'm obsessed with Juice Press - they're everywhere. I spend so much money at that place it's crazy.
-
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
-
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
-
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
-
Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
-
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
-
I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
-
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
-
I really enjoyed working with Mariah, Alfre Woodward's character, because she's a wonderful actor, and I felt we had a natural chemistry that was reflective of real family members.
-
I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
-
I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
-
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
-
I don't know if you've ever been skiing, but if you go to the slope you'll see all these kids fearlessly zooming by. It's only when we get older that fear creeps in. But for me, it just never has. And when it comes to racing, it's always about who is willing to go further, who is willing to take that extra step. I'm willing to take any amount of pain to win. I'm hungry like you.
-
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
-
The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.
-
The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.
