David Jason (David John White) Quotes
Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.
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My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.
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I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
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Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.
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Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
