Michael Leunig Quotes
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
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When the Manufacturing Capitalist of Europe shall advert to the many important advantages, which have been intimated, in the Course of this report, he cannot but perceive very powerful inducements to a transfer of himself and his Capital to the United States.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
