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Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are. -- Alan Alda
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that. -- Anthony Bourdain
Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.' -- Johnny Weir
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.' -- Magic Johnson
He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson. -- Allen Iverson
The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message. -- Julia Roberts
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. -- Ted Nelson
I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. -- Oscar Robertson
Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero. -- Daniel Libeskind
Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there. -- Billy Gardell
My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that. -- Robin Yount
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. -- James Wolcott
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. -- Keanu Reeves
People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying. -- Mattie Stepanek
We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time. -- Steve Kanaly
One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, 'Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.' That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, 'Are you going to finish that sandwich?' -- Larry the Cable Guy
Larry David makes me laugh. -- Mary J. Blige
Larry Kasdan is a great director. -- Brion James
I am in love with Larry David. -- Kathy Griffin
Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6". -- Jerry Coleman
Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me. -- Jason Bay
I do have a favorite Zeppelin song, Larry, Black Dog. -- Condoleezza Rice
Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity. -- Paul Gigot
I liked that Larry King didn't know who Minerva was. -- Maria Shriver
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got. -- Michael Caine
I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov. -- Ron Livingston
Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up. -- Jeff Ross
Dirk Nowitzki will be better than Larry Bird. I'm a legend killer. -- Mark Jackson
Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones. -- Robert Towne
I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person. -- Joan Collins
Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way. -- Kevin Sessums
Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers. -- George Pataki
Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to. -- Jerry Coleman
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. -- Kevin Sessums
Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses. -- Kevin Nealon
Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me. -- Christopher Atkins
Larry King is so old, he's actually one of the Jews that killed Christ. -- Anthony Jeselnik
I believe Larry Page is moving Google from an advertising-based company to a commerce-based company. -- Robert Scoble
I don't watch cop movies much. I TiVo shows. I watch every Larry David show. -- Raymond Kelly
But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did. -- Courtney Love
Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him. -- Kevin Sessums
I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig. -- Stephen Colbert
Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders. -- Garry Shandling
People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. -- Oscar Robertson
Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it. -- Howie Chizek
Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career. -- Jalen Rose
I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me. -- Kevin Sessums
Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops. -- Lisa Lampanelli
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team. -- Oscar Robertson
Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes. -- Ralston Bowles
If I ever wanted to pick someone's brain, like Larry David would obviously be the most relevant. -- Steve Dildarian
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I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time. -- Gerry Cooney
I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972. -- Kevin Sessums
Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal - change our state bird to the spread eagle. -- Craig Kilborn
Larry Jones with Feed the Children and I are partnering in New York and going into Rikers Island. -- Paula White
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends. -- Kevin Sessums
Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving. -- Charlene Tilton
I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. -- John Salley
The saddest day in Pixar history was when some guy said 'get Larry the Cable Guy on the phone. -- Andy Kindler
Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders. -- Megan Gallagher
No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley. -- Andrew Natsios
That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will. -- Ronald Reagan
Todd and Larry were Quinn's people. They were clean-limbed and pretty and, for a man of my age, ludicrously youthful. -- John le Carre
I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight. -- Michael Spinks
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart. -- Dennis Rodman
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. -- James Wolcott
I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works. -- Buzz Osborne
We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed. -- Tug McGraw
You might be a redneck if your father encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening on the lube rack. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!' -- Janeane Garofalo
Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew. -- Linda Gray
Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny. -- Alan King
You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights. -- Eva Mendes
Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband. -- Jerry Lawler
Pixar has announced Larry the Cable Guy will be starring in Cars 3 thru 6. Howie Mandel will be playing his sidekick, Mopey the Moped. -- Andy Kindler
Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us. -- Kevin Sessums
Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird. -- Magic Johnson
Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic. -- Ian McClellan
I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay. -- Donald Ray Pollock
Well, my plan, actually Larry Kudlow, who's a fantastic guy, I think likes my plan the most. I'm cutting taxes by about the most. -- Donald Trump
Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo. -- Meat Loaf
If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him . . . but it wouldn't be with an ice pick. -- David Duchovny
Larry the Cable Guy has signed a deal with Cracker Barrel. Not the store. He signed a deal with a barrel full of angry rednecks. -- Andy Kindler
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie. -- Jon Landau
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. -- Cornel West
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.' -- Jon Landau
When I graduated [from Yale], I went back to Larry [Kramer]. But when I go to Yale reunions, there are still people who call me David. -- Kevin Sessums
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all. -- Joe Lando
You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home. -- Simon Pegg
But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood. -- Barney Hoskyns
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor. -- Peter Eisenman
Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Where have you been?" he asked slowly."Um, in the bathroom, mostly," Larry said. Let's just say my plumbing is not working any better than Mexico City's. -- Kevin Sylvester
There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth. -- Leo Durocher
I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with. -- Ram Shriram
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to. -- Dave Barry
I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her. -- Joy Behar
"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name. -- Kevin Sessums
I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions. -- Joe Morgan
Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors. -- Derek Jacobi
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. -- Michael Winter
[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning." -- Kevin Sessums
Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time. -- Barbara Eden
My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love. -- Vivien Leigh
Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest. -- Dennis Rodman
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. -- Robert Gottlieb
In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for. -- Bob Beamon
Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing. -- Tess Gerritsen
Once when Larry the Cable Guy was on Conan's show, Conan O'Brien was so offended by Larry's material, he had to walk away from the desk he was so offended. -- Andy Kindler
I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out. -- Kevin Sessums
Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt's ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he was hired by the law firm defending President Clinton. -- Jerry Falwell
Gray Davis got some good news this week: the Clintons are out here in California campaigning for him. Actually, Hillary is campaigning for Davis, Bill is out here for Larry Flynt. -- Jay Leno
Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter. -- David Duchovny
In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown. -- Allen Iverson
I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight. -- Michael Spinks
There's never been a blueprint, I just keep exploring doors as they open. But whenever people would ask me what's my favorite thing to do, it was sitting in for Larry King. -- Drew Pinsky

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