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 is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.
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I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.
