Larry David Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
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On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
