Larry Elder Quotes
Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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All of my songs are autobiographical.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Everything I do I always feel very confident. Whether it's tennis, badminton, football, whatever. I just go out there and think I can do it and most of the time I can. What I'm good at I don't mind saying because it's not a secret, is it? For me confidence is so important. It's good to know I can go out on the field and feel I can take on the world.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
