Lewis Black Quotes
If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.
Quotes to Explore
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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I don't really sell many records.
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As a mom, I can't imagine how hard it would be to hear hurtful, untrue things being said about my daughters.
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I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.
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Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.
