Michael Leunig Quotes
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.Michael Leunig
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
Naomi Judd -
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.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
Namie Amuro -
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway -
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp -
People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
Inga Cadranel
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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.
Lady Gaga -
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White -
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. Wilson -
I've never abandoned the novel.
V. S. Naipaul -
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.
Laura Vandervoort -
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.
Federico Fellini
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
J. K. Simmons -
I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
Kate Micucci -
In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.
Warren Farrell -
Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
Sam Harris -
Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.
Anne Frank -
A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.
Claud Cockburn
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I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. I'm not sure it's even possible.
Lori Foster -
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. Forbes -
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell -
We have three daughters, our own. And, of course, there's nothing more frightening than something bad happening to them. And also, the thought of our children turning bad in some ways is another frightening thought.
Alexander Ahndoril -
I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don't know what's coming next, and I really have to force it.
Louis Sachar -
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
Michael Leunig