Lewis Black Quotes
The toughest thing about performing here is, where do you go from here? Next week, I'm at the Fort Lauderdale Performing Arts Center.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
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I think men look best when they're dressed in something that makes them feel comfortable.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.
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To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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The toughest thing about performing here is, where do you go from here? Next week, I'm at the Fort Lauderdale Performing Arts Center.
