Denis Leary Quotes
If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I'm not graceful.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.
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The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.
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If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.
