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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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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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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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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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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A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.
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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
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My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
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I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.
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A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."
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Your style is formed by what you can't do.
