It doesn't last forever, and $600 or $700 a month is a lot to pay when someone has lost their income...
LARRY LEVITT As long as the growth in health insurance premiums far outpaces the growth in wages, the erosion in ...
LARRY LEVITT If you have even a mild health condition, your premium could be surcharged, or you could be denied c...
LARRY LEVITT Most people who are eligible for COBRA don't take it. About 20 percent of eligible people use it. Th...
LARRY LEVITT I think for the industry, it is also the most significant because it has the potential -- if litigat...
LARRY LEVITT In many ways what's been happening in the economy hits them (working poor families) the worst. Those...
LARRY LEVITT Once you start to become the butt of Jay Leno's jokes, ... you know you are in trouble.
LARRY LEVITT With our robust economy, American workers are finally seeing some improvement in the health benefits...
LARRY LEVITT Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. B...
ARTHUR LEVITT CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.
THEODORE LEVITT I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers...
STEVEN LEVITT The motivation to satisfy Wall Street earnings expectations may be overriding common sense business ...
ARTHUR LEVITT Richard is a multifaceted kind of guy,
ARTHUR LEVITT It has been almost 30 years since significant steps were taken to improve the mutual fund governance...
ARTHUR LEVITT We have an opportunity today that we may not have again in our lifetime, to realize the vision for a...
ARTHUR LEVITT These issues are not academic or peripheral -- they directly affect every mutual fund investor. ... ...
ARTHUR LEVITT do whatever was possible to expedite the process.
ARTHUR LEVITT The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of t...
ARTHUR LEVITT This is outrageous that just two months ago, a public offering was done. Major banking institutions ...
ARTHUR LEVITT The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the A...
ARTHUR LEVITT We are not looking for a bit of window dressing on the same old recycled gobbledygook, ... We expect...
ARTHUR LEVITT Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you...
ARTHUR LEVITT The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their abilit...
STEVEN LEVITT Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their ...
ARTHUR LEVITT I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their...
MICHAEL LEVITT You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is...
STEVEN LEVITT Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the...
TED LEVITT They have been compared to a high-tech version of morning gossip or advice at the company water cool...
ARTHUR LEVITT Race is not in any way central to our arguments about abortion and crime.
STEVEN LEVITT We all understand that directors aren't required to guarantee that their fund has the lowest fees, ....
ARTHUR LEVITT I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of invest...
ARTHUR LEVITT This is a reflex rally from the depths. Psychology has improved for two straight days, it's typical ...
CHUCK LEVITT Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather throu...
ARTHUR LEVITT Now, we all understand that directors aren't required to guarantee that their fund has the lowest fe...
ARTHUR LEVITT Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
ARTHUR LEVITT The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.
TED LEVITT What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.
ARTHUR LEVITT Any operating system is impervious to viruses. It's just harder to do (to a Mac), it doesn't mean it...
RICK LEVITT This effort will be an important addition ? to encourage the education of fund directors,
ARTHUR LEVITT How many times have we seen an analyst on television being asked to list his top five picks? And how...
ARTHUR LEVITT A careful balance of 'bright-line' rules establishing clear limits, coupled with greater disclosure,...
ARTHUR LEVITT It is time for the U.S. securities market to make this change,
ARTHUR LEVITT a way to gain and maintain favor with particular analysts.
ARTHUR LEVITT High-quality and timely information is the lifeblood of strong, vibrant markets. It is at the very c...
ARTHUR LEVITT I've had my dream job. I have been able to work on issues that I have been deeply passionate about s...
ARTHUR LEVITT But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense...
ARTHUR LEVITT That also has put pressure on analysts to report favorably on a company in order to maintain access ...
ARTHUR LEVITT Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of dat...
STEVEN LEVITT Sandy reacted to his times, and Chuck Prince is going to have to determine what his times are and ho...
ARTHUR LEVITT His positives outweigh negatives (in different groups surveyed) by multiples of two, three, four, ev...
STEVE LEVITT It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If ...
STEVE LEVITT All three of these are factors that put children at risk for crime when they grow up. Unwanted child...
STEVE LEVITT No one would disagree that restraining your child is about the single best thing you can do for prot...
STEVEN LEVITT Betting on sports is actually a lot more like playing the stock market than it is the other games at...
STEVEN LEVITT There aren't many people who succeed in doing it, but at least it's possible.
STEVEN LEVITT Some of these deceased personalities have Q scores equal to or greater than some of the live persona...
STEVEN LEVITT He's gone from someone who has never gotten a lot of endorsements to someone who's likely not to get...
STEVEN LEVITT He doesn't make advertisers comfortable, that's for sure. He is not necessarily a fan favorite these...
STEVEN LEVITT Sacred Heart is about being able to teach the faith day in and day out to whoever wants it. And when...
BILL LEVITT We were always looking to get the local clergy to share with us their teachings, their prayers, thei...
BILL LEVITT We're like any other talk-radio station in that we touch on the issues that affect our lives everyda...
BILL LEVITT The miracle story of Catholic radio is that everything conventional in radio - advertising, billboar...
BILL LEVITT What we have now is a huge over-supply...you could call it a glut...of total meat in the market.
CHUCK LEVITT What is there not to like about Lucy?
STEVE LEVITT Because everyone still 'loves Lucy' she left a great legacy behind,
STEVEN LEVITT The animals did not conceive -- the mother hogs, the sows -- the baby pigs were not born last fall a...
CHUCK LEVITT Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are...
STEVEN LEVITT As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to ...
STEVEN LEVITT The way that Zola was so productive reminds me of a wounded soldier who takes out more of the bad gu...
MARK LEVITT Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation an...
ARTHUR LEVITT Internet e-mail is simpler and cheaper, but you won't get integrated calendaring, scheduling, databa...
MARK LEVITT Internet e-mail is simpler and cheaper, but you won't get integrated calendaring, scheduling, databa...
MARK LEVITT E-mail has faced its challengers -- viruses, spam, regulations -- and emerged with its reputation br...
MARK LEVITT While email has been bruised, it's emerged intact. What people are thinking now is not how I can get...
MARK LEVITT I am skeptical about the idea that [instant messaging] is all of a sudden a new, fantastic idea that...
MARK LEVITT A customer service person is usually expected to focus on a specific customer, a specific question, ...
MARK LEVITT Assuming the survey results are accurate, this indicates that many companies do not yet recognize e-...
MARK LEVITT The policy reason why this is bad is that it puts the onus on the voter to fix the state's mistake. ...
JUSTIN LEVITT Each of these states is on a collision course that could result in chaos at the polls in November as...
JUSTIN LEVITT The lesson from New York City's audit is that a strictly applied no-match, no-vote policy would dise...
JUSTIN LEVITT My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preach...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track c...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and bor...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anyt...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT It's HE-RO," the boy argued.
"No," the girl insisted,
"it's HER-O.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some...
STEVEN D. LEVITT I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs ca...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story bu...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work,...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to m...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poet...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just fin...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When you become a ghost
feel free to haunt me.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
STEVEN D. LEVITT I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a hig...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Personally, when I watch mysteries, I never follow all the plot twists the first time, whether it be...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT That's what Neil had to be and I didn't see myself that way and I didn't think anyone else did, so I...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT You could tell immediately that care and passion had gone into writing it.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There'...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytellin...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT But a mountain of recent evidence suggests that teacher skill has less influence on a student's perf...
STEVEN D. LEVITT The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Almost every script is anything from shabby to awful, but this one was great,
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I've played the smart kid, the funny one, the nice sweet one, even the angry one, but never the sexy...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT A man touched me: 
his hand... my thigh.

I touched him too: 
my fist... his j...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT As my story came to a
close I realized that I was
the villain all along.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be ...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like p...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whe...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until on...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Over time, some ideas do cross the repugnance barrier to become reality. Charging interest on loans....
STEVEN D. LEVITT When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, t...
STEVEN D. LEVITT But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their...
STEVEN D. LEVITT When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs—even when it represents nothin...
STEVEN D. LEVITT 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