Lewis Black Quotes
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.
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It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.
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Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)
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My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
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FEMA? I always thought it was a bone here in your ass.
