Lewis Black Quotes

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of your state. How am I, as a comedian, supposed to create a reality that encompasses that?

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Equality
  • Disease

• If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Job

• Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Job
  • Me
  • President

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Inspiration
  • Working

• I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Change
  • Stop
  • Air

• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • American
  • Name

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Television
  • Tax

• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Always
  • Story

• Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Just Because

• One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • May
  • Age
  • Change

• I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Peace

• Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.

  

  J. B. MacKinnon
  • Enemy
  • Distance
  • Awareness

• I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.

  

  Frank McCourt

• I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• The reality is, if a woman is married to man with a title, she gets a title. I think everybody should have the same opportunities and the same privileges and the same honours.

  

  David Furnish
  • She
  • Reality

• It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn't seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Reality

• Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of your state. How am I, as a comedian, supposed to create a reality that encompasses that?

  

  Lewis Black
  • Reality