Davy Rothbart Quotes

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

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• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Years
  • Better
  • Consistency

• Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Silly

• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Years
  • More

• In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Years

• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Feedback

• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Blame

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Pretty
  • Years

• Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

  

  Edith Head
  • Business
  • Ideas
  • Years

• I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Years
  • Old
  • Been

• Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Know
  • Years

• The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Married

• My mom was a single parent.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Single
  • Mom
  • Parent

• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Life
  • Years
  • Ego

• Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Love
  • Years
  • Anniversary

• I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

  

  Sally Field
  • Great
  • Years
  • Deal

• I've seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I've dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I've had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn't very ignorant because I've seen a lot.

  

  Wale
  • Women
  • Celebrity
  • Shows

• Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's been held for a year and a half. He embodies the brave spirit that gives life to the freedom of the press. Jason has already been reunited with his wife and mom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Different
  • Light
  • Peace

• A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Music
  • Listening

• Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Education transformation

• Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Truth
  • Afraid
  • Images

• My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Years
  • Parent
  • Married