Larry Gelbart Quotes
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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I'm not graceful.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.
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I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to lose that, I think, would be very bad, not just speaking as a scientist myself. I think it would be very bad for the morale of the whole country.
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Thank you, Senator Hagel for that wonderful introduction. It is a great honour to be introduced by such a distinguished legislator.
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Your style is formed by what you can't do.
