Garry Shandling Quotes
I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
Quotes to Explore
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.
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Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.
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Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.
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I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.
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I was two votes away from class clown in high school.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
