Denis Leary Quotes
When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
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We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
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If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
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Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.
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I didn't build Auntie Anne's alone. That would have been impossible. From the very beginning, we had a team around us that was exceptional. Our company was successful because of the dedicated people who worked for us.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.
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I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
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When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.
