David Ignatow Quotes

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

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• I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Listen
  • Jazz
  • Mainstream

• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Human

• In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Opinion

• It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Government

• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Up
  • Together
  • Emotions

• It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Single
  • Encouraging

• Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Light
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• One of the things I love about music is live performance.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Live
  • Things

• I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Everything
  • Percent
  • Tide

• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Painting
  • Creative
  • Soup

• Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.

  

  Jack Keane
  • More
  • Aggression
  • Unanswered

• I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Clever

• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture

• Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Work
  • Children
  • Hope

• Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Violence
  • Savage

• The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • May
  • Wind

• Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Growing
  • Empowering

• When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Spiritual

• You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Music
  • Performances
  • Interviews

• Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I’ve never been back to his graveside. I’d like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mountain
  • Flower
  • Honour

• I think the biggest thing to do - especially if you're a woman trying to succeed in a male-dominated industry - is to just study as much you can and get ready for negativity, backlash, and comments. There's going to be a ton of it.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • Trying
  • Study
  • Succeed

• I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

  

  David Ignatow
  • Mountain
  • Content
  • Comment