Larry Gelbart Quotes
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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A girl can never have too many lipstick options!
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Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.
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...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.
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If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.
