David Luiz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
-
The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
-
I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
-
Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
-
You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
-
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
-
I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
-
Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.
-
For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.
-
For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
-
Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?
-
It was as though I found the language I'd wanted from photography; the expression that I got partly from photography, I got completely from cooking.
-
My wife says 90% of sex occurs between the ears. But I need a girl who can blow more just my mind.
-
Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
-
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
-
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
-
I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
-
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.
-
Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
-
I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.
-
An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.
