Lewis Black Quotes
about solar energy If you ask your congressman why, he'll say 'Because it's hard. It's really hard. Makes me want to go poopie.' You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
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This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.
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Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.
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The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim.
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Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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about solar energy If you ask your congressman why, he'll say 'Because it's hard. It's really hard. Makes me want to go poopie.' You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!
