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.
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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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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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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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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
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I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
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I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
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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.
