Denis Leary Quotes

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Denis Leary

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• We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • People
  • Work
  • She

• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Writing
  • Universe

• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Families
  • Brothers

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Remember
  • War
  • Fear

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Dream

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • May
  • Job

• I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Weird

• Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.

  

  Peter Hain
  • People
  • Political
  • Education

• It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

  

  Anupam Kher
  • Fear
  • Failure

• When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

  

  Denis Leary
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