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.
Carl Paladino -
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
Jack Nicklaus -
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi -
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Ramakrishna -
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.
Zoe Kravitz -
A busybody's work is never done.
A. N. Wilson
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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.
Owen Hart -
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
Kate Moss -
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. Lawrence -
I like to build things. I like to do things.
Walter Chrysler -
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.
Sallust -
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
Patricia Velasquez
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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.
Kate Forsyth -
I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss -
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.
Wanda Sykes -
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.'
Ed Koch -
I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
Idina Menzel -
When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
Pamela Nicholson
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It's a different process for me, but it's really cool to hear someone else singing the song that you wrote.
Jamie Lynn Spears -
This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
Beth Broderick -
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
Rainn Wilson -
Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.
Mary Gaitskill -
The low dive had set a standard that only middle-aged hooligans could remember and to which they looked back as Mrs Lot at Sodom.
Quentin Crisp -
Your style is formed by what you can't do.
Larry Gelbart