La La Anthony Quotes

I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

Ellen Barkin, your upcoming TV show ‘The New Normal’ premiers on September 11th. September 11th, that sounds about right. Every clip I’ve seen feels like I’m watching a third tower collapse.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

A rock star never gets old!

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

Using affirmations on a daily basis is one of the easiest things we can do to change our lives.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Life is the best teacher.

With each person our heart loves, our soul becomes stronger.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.