Michael Leunig Quotes

There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear: There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two results, Love and fear, Love and fear.

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Fall
  • Battle

• I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Society
  • First

• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Cooking

• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Me
  • Democracy

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Judge

• When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Law

• The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Self

• Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Musical
  • Directions
  • Remind

• Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Why
  • Actor
  • Gender

• I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • War
  • Poetry

• I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Woods

• There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Game
  • Religion
  • Peaceful

• If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Cool

• Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Language
  • Need

• In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Patriot

• Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Pleasure
  • Image
  • Silent

• Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Understanding
  • Balance
  • Perspective

• You sit at a fashion show in another country and you watch all of these paparazzi swarm around a celebrity, only they're a local celebrity, maybe a soap opera star, so you don't have any idea who they are, you just know they're famous to a bunch of stunned Italians. It's weird, because when you can't identify who a celebrity is, they can just look like overslicked stand-ins. That might sound awful, but what I mean is, when you think about most actresses, even in Hollywood, they really aren't that fascinating or glamorous in their own right once you strip away the flashbulbs.

  

  Christopher Bollen

• Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.

  

  Sendhil Mullainathan
  • Needs
  • Leaving
  • Results

• There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear: There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two results, Love and fear, Love and fear.

  

  Michael Leunig
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