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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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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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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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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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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Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
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It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
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I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
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As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.
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There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.
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Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
