Larry David Quotes
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.
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The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
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Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
