Larry Merchant Quotes

If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass

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• Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• I love Star City - it is my home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Love
  • Home
  • City

• I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Working

• In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Communism

• It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Funny
  • College

• Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Work
  • You
  • Copy

• By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Way
  • Down
  • Will

• There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Sun

• I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Professional
  • Gentleman

• Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Increase
  • Dominate

• I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Question
  • Feel

• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Risk

• Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Art
  • Understanding
  • Marriage

• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • World
  • Music
  • Striving

• I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Important
  • Practice
  • Courage

• For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.

  

  Andy Whitfield
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I often quote Hitler, who said words to the effect of, "Rulers are fortunate that the people do not think." Politicians know this. Even when the public seems to be upset, the politicians know if they can put on a brave face and ride it out, they generally will.

  

  Ernie Chambers
  • Ride
  • Politicians
  • Rulers

• Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Television
  • Invention

• We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Tired
  • Grows
  • Defects

• People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Spiritual

• It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • You
  • Respect
  • Manager

• If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass

  

  Larry Merchant
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