Larry Brilliant Quotes
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Quotes to Explore
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
