Garry Shandling Quotes
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.
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And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
