Lewis Black Quotes

Halfway through the winter, I decided I didn't want to be a comic anymore. I wanted to be a bear. Because bears are more evolved. It gets cold, and what does the bear do? He goes, 'Well, I'm going to bed! This blows!' And then it gets warm and he goes, 'Well, fuck, time to wake up!'

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Feelings
  • Sex
  • Kindness

• I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Political

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Community
  • View

• Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Entrepreneur

• I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Performer

• As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Way
  • Thoughts
  • Emotional

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Fearless

• I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Mother

• Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • Environment
  • Woman

• My music lives because of real players.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Real
  • Players

• When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.

  

  John Waters
  • Life
  • Kids
  • House

• Halfway through the winter, I decided I didn't want to be a comic anymore. I wanted to be a bear. Because bears are more evolved. It gets cold, and what does the bear do? He goes, 'Well, I'm going to bed! This blows!' And then it gets warm and he goes, 'Well, fuck, time to wake up!'

  

  Lewis Black
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