Larry Gelbart Quotes

Talk about fulfilling a campaign promise, ... M*A*S*H.

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• I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Example

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Day
  • Thoughts
  • Week

• Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Everybody
  • Ridiculous
  • Hold

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• There is no method but to be very intelligent.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Intelligent
  • Intelligence
  • Very

• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Food

• Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Guy
  • Team
  • Crazy

• I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Live

• I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Child
  • Doing
  • Silly

• I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Day

• There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Hate

• My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Year
  • Plan
  • Penny

• I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Love
  • Curious

• I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Up
  • College
  • Football

• As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People

• I tend not to look at my work after I've done it. In fact, the only time I typically get to review it is when the fans bring up comics at shows, and I kind of flip through it and be like, 'Oh, I remember doing this!'

  

  Jim Lee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Promise
  • India
  • Execution

• I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

  

  Steve Zahn
  • Campaign
  • Parts
  • Oscar

• As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

  

  Sandra Ann Lauer Enigma
  • Time
  • Memory
  • Chocolate

• Talk about fulfilling a campaign promise, ... M*A*S*H.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Promise
  • Campaign
  • Fulfilling