Larry Gelbart Quotes
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I love women more than anything.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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But I think the guys are very happy to accommodate the people and that's part of golf in general.
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I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
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I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.
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You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
