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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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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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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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.
