David Goodis Quotes

The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

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• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Study

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • God
  • Bad
  • Me

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Bought
  • Bankrupted

• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Play

• It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • End
  • Sad

• But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Good
  • Government
  • Ideas

• Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Choice
  • Clear

• If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Think
  • You
  • Impossible

• Television, as the most 'public' of media, has its limits.

  

  Daniel Bell

• She gets too hungry for dinner at eight...She likes a crap game, but never come late...She'd never bother with people she hates...That's why the lady is a tramp.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

  

  Brian Keene

• As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

  

  Christina Romer
  • World
  • History
  • Growth

• I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Job

• I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Golf is a very, very frustrating game.

  

  Jason Day
  • Game
  • Golf

• While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • School

• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Philosophy
  • Medicine
  • Theology

• There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Work
  • Path

• What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Great
  • Career

• The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

  

  David Goodis
  • People
  • Understand
  • Trouble