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Lewis Black Quotes

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 30, 1948

Topics

Confidence Art School Think Go Many

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

Getting Older Me Doing You More Did

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

Life God Waves Laugh My Life You

If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

Best View You Place Jail Compliance

Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.

Business Service Years Peak Piracy

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

Dead Left Been Would Czechoslovakia

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

Comedy Venice Film Italian Festival

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Rosalind Wiseman

Positive Good Children Parents Think

The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.

Life People Rest Universe Questions

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

Jonathan Raymond

Technology Succeed Computers Internet

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Life Happiness Best Joy Help Others

There's sacrifice involved. Either you're going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you're going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you're sacrificing your career.

Work Time Sacrifice You Career Kid

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

War People Think Through Split Been

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