Larry David Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Bush is no conservative.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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People love boxing, but you've gotta wait two or three years for your favorite boxer to have a fight.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
