David Sklansky Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.
-
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
-
Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
-
Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
-
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
-
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
-
I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
-
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
-
David Lynch helped me be cool.
-
I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
-
I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
-
I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
-
Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
-
On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
-
When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
-
Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?
-
Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'
-
All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.
-
The journey itself is my home.
-
I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
-
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
-
I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.
-
The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.
-
When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.
