Denis Leary Quotes
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.
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If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
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The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
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In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.
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When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.
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I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
