Michael Leunig Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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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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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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I love having that conversation with someone I've never met before who's enjoying something that I wrote and being able to connect and share that.
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The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
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I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.
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Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
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A world view is probably an expression of self.
