Douglas Leone Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper. Within six months, I got my first million dollars and I didn’t have to strip for bucks any more. Then I met Kurt and we still chanted, but we did a lot of drugs together.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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Jimmy Brown made headlines recently for his off-the-wall talk of an NFL comeback at 47. That's a shame because people who never saw Jimmy Brown in his prime will think of him only as a dotty middle-aged man on a colossal ego trip.
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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