Larry Merchant quote: "There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing."

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the...
LARRY MERCHANT

The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.
LARRY MERCHANT

I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fi...
LARRY MERCHANT

Neither guy wanted to yield. It was the third fight of their trilogy, and it was that important.
LARRY MERCHANT

I haven't seen Johnson enough in the past to know, but he's a guy who's fought all these years, 16 y...
LARRY MERCHANT

It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention,
LARRY MERCHANT

This team is gonna get murdered.
LARRY MERCHANT

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
LARRY MERCHANT

I think it all depends on how good this fight is. I don't know how to rank it. If this turns out to ...
LARRY MERCHANT

He's so good, you wonder what's wrong with him.
LARRY MERCHANT

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a cr...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I've raised my daughter with no television.
NATALIE MERCHANT

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!
NATALIE MERCHANT

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to delib...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself int...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mas...
NATALIE MERCHANT

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index...
NATALIE MERCHANT

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, an...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
NATALIE MERCHANT

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-close...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
NATALIE MERCHANT

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it'...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
NATALIE MERCHANT

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so...
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.
STEPHEN MERCHANT

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris....
STEPHEN MERCHANT

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren B...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it see...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I'm always jealous of Johnny Depp's sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more of...
TAMZIN MERCHANT

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerd...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of atte...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think the...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

[Her husband, violinist Sanford Allen, rehearses Bach on his Stradivarius next door, for a recital u...
ISMAIL MERCHANT

We may be able to have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that you could...
MARK MERCHANT

People don't mind insulting the tall. We're supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinn...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

When I started to mention to people who know about such things, 'I'm doing this game, 'P...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

We (the county executive staff) came up with an extensive list of potentially interested parties and...
JENNIFER MERCHANT

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.
ISMAIL MERCHANT

Icons are our windows into the Kingdom of Heaven, transporting us beyond our brokenness and helping ...
CORNELIA MERCHANT

I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I think looking at restoration from a purely (environmental) standpoint may mean tearing people's ho...
JENNIFER MERCHANT

We had some folks that thought it was too business oriented so we added two more seats.
JENNIFER MERCHANT

I recommend the deletion of any numerical standards (goals) until further studies can be made.
JENNIFER MERCHANT

I'm still unclear on how indicators and standards are not only going to be used, but how they are (b...
JENNIFER MERCHANT

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only jus...
ISMAIL MERCHANT

Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty ...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to m...
TAMZIN MERCHANT

You will have an opportunity to appreciate the magnificence of Orthodox iconography.
CORNELIA MERCHANT

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or c...
ISMAIL MERCHANT

It's like a commercial. It's flashy with it's 'Life is good. Life is happy. Life is perfect.' But in...
JOSIE MERCHANT

I'm still a little perplexed at Carrie Moore and Casey Rost. If we see them again, certainly, we're ...
SUZY MERCHANT

I just wanted to get all this stuff in one place, ... A lot of it was scattered around or out of pri...
NATALIE MERCHANT

Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
NATALIE MERCHANT

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
NATALIE MERCHANT

I'm in the public eye. I've sold 14 million records -- so 14 million individuals have bought my reco...
NATALIE MERCHANT

That kind of violence is dangerous to me, to be beamed out via satellite to the rest of the country....
NATALIE MERCHANT

We may be able to have antibiotics that you take orally, potentially also antibiotics that you could...
MARK MERCHANT

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NATALIE MERCHANT

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses t...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.
STEPHEN MERCHANT

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture...
ISMAIL MERCHANT

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

This is our first fund-raiser.
CORNELIA MERCHANT

The parish is hoping to raise funds to have the icon of Christ painted at the apex of the dome above...
CORNELIA MERCHANT

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could ...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I just always remember there being an ability to amuse schoolmates. Not in a kind of 'dance-arou...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they wer...
STEPHEN MERCHANT

I believe that at the very root of our humanity is a passion to create value with heart, to work alo...
NILOFER MERCHANT

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.
LARRY HOGAN

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War...
LARRY NIVEN

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
LARRY WALL

Most jokes state a bitter truth.
LARRY GELBART

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the co...
LARRY PAGE

I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...
LARRY FLYNT

I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES

I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.
LARRY WILMORE

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
LARRY WILMORE

The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the c...
LARRY WILMORE

You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you d...
LARRY WILMORE

I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
LARRY WILMORE

I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh ev...
LARRY WILMORE

My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm w...
LARRY WILMORE

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
LARRY WILMORE

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
LARRY WILMORE

There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies th...
LARRY WILMORE

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that ...
LARRY WILMORE

When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing i...
LARRY WILMORE

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
LARRY WILMORE

I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and ...
LARRY WILMORE

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
LARRY WILMORE

The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. An...
LARRY WILMORE

The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
LARRY WILMORE

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compa...
LARRY WILMORE

Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
LARRY WILMORE

I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in conten...
LARRY WILMORE

I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was th...
LARRY WILMORE

You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
LARRY WILMORE

I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I wa...
LARRY WILMORE

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
LARRY WILMORE

One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
LARRY WILLIAMS

It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all availabl...
LARRY WILLIAMS

The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get sc...
LARRY WILLIAMS

What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely ...
LARRY WILLIAMS

Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
LARRY WILLIAMS

My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
LARRY WILCOX

I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
LARRY WILCOX

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take a...
LARRY WILCOX

Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person...
LARRY WILCOX

I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more ...
LARRY WILCOX

I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
LARRY WILCOX

I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs'...
LARRY WILCOX

I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
LARRY WILCOX

I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
LARRY WILCOX

I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
LARRY WILCOX

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret m...
LARRY WILCOX

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
LARRY WILCOX

I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
LARRY WILCOX

A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're ...
LARRY WILCOX

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each o...
LARRY WILCOX

Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
LARRY WILCOX

Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while...
LARRY WILCOX

Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honest...
LARRY WILCOX

Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in t...
LARRY WILCOX

I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity ...
LARRY WILCOX

I'm very candid.
LARRY WILCOX

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I woul...
LARRY WALL

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
LARRY WALL

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there...
LARRY WALL

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you&#...
LARRY WALL

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want...
LARRY WALL

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of th...
LARRY WALL

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifyi...
LARRY WALL

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
LARRY WALL

Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
LARRY WALL

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
LARRY WALL

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more l...
LARRY WALL

I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
LARRY WALL

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still wor...
LARRY WALL

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smar...
LARRY WALL

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to c...
LARRY WALL

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a ...
LARRY WALL

Programmers can be lazy.
LARRY WALL

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
LARRY WALL

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
LARRY WALL

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, ...
LARRY WALL

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. W...
LARRY WALL

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and the...
LARRY SPEAKES

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
LARRY SPEAKES

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
LARRY SPEAKES

We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you'...
LARRY SMITH

Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your care...
LARRY SMITH

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work,...
LARRY SMITH

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It...
LARRY SMITH

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
LARRY RIVERS

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black...
LARRY RIVERS

Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
LARRY RIVERS

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
LARRY RIVERS

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
LARRY POONS

A great painting is a great painting.
LARRY POONS

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at...
LARRY POONS

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
LARRY POONS

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
LARRY POONS

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, t...
LARRY POONS

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as...
LARRY PAGE

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
LARRY PAGE

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government ove...
LARRY PAGE

I can't really comment on rumors.
LARRY PAGE

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for o...
LARRY PAGE

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create...
LARRY PAGE

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their j...
LARRY PAGE

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know t...
LARRY PAGE

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always g...
LARRY PAGE

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beac...
LARRY PAGE

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't...
LARRY PAGE

We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow re...
LARRY PAGE

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you lo...
LARRY PAGE

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
LARRY PAGE

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to...
LARRY PAGE

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually mis...
LARRY PAGE

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't b...
LARRY NORMAN

I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superf...
LARRY NORMAN

Art is more engaging that propaganda.
LARRY NORMAN

I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate ...
LARRY NORMAN

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were re...
LARRY NORMAN

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson...
LARRY NORMAN

Life is God's art.
LARRY NORMAN

I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really bei...
LARRY NORMAN

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism....
LARRY NORMAN

We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
LARRY NORMAN

There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

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There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

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