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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Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other.
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Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
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My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.
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Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
