Lewis Black Quotes
Why would I be excited that a Democrat won? Seriously, over the past eight years the Democrats didn't do SHIT! Basically, the last eight years, I feel, the Republicans stood around farting; and the Democrats went 'Ooh, let me smell it.'
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.
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Why would I be excited that a Democrat won? Seriously, over the past eight years the Democrats didn't do SHIT! Basically, the last eight years, I feel, the Republicans stood around farting; and the Democrats went 'Ooh, let me smell it.'
