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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.


Larry Brilliant

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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