Lewis Black Quotes

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

Lewis Black

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TimePeopleShoppingYouSayOut

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

Jena Malone

FamilyFoundationFeelPlaceSafe

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

Stephen Hawking

GoodIntelligenceDesignImprove

When Czar Ivan III took a liking to the Judaizers, they were invited to Moscow, where they managed to convert so much of the court nobility in the last decades of the fifteenth century that traditionalists felt the need to counter the trend through selective burnings at the stake.

Tom Reiss

NeedThroughNobilityWhereTrend

I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn't quite make it.

Robert David Hall

MusicFriendsKnowDirectorRadio

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Rita Mae Brown

LogicIntuitionImpatienceSuspension

In our industry, there are so many competing companies and games, and they have people constantly out spying on competition. For example, Valve in Seattle tries to keep their location a secret.

Rony Abovitz

CompetitionPeopleGamesSecretOut

When I got 'Stargate: Atlantis,' I said, 'Man, I'd love to be on HBO.'

Jason Momoa

LoveManSaidGotStargateHBO

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

Don Johnson

BusinessMiamiYearsViceAlong

Most people know my music but will never read my books.

Chico Buarque

MusicPeopleKnowWillNeverBooks

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

Algernon Sidney

FateSameDealNationsHad

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Phil Klay

RelationshipDeathWarWorldDoing

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

Les Brown

LifeLiveLive LifeUrgencyWasted

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