Larry Charles Quotes
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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Music is my release.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
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I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.
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For me, I do not wish to build an empire.
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I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.
