Denis Leary Quotes
I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.
Quotes to Explore
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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I always have to be writing.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
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Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
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People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.
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In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.
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When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
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The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness...
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I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.
