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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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.
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Brigitte Bardot is an icon, and her look is timeless. She is seen as one of the most beautiful women of all time. I feel very honored to be compared to her.
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We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
