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've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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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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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
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Memory politics are by definition political and shift accordingly. There was a time when both the South Korean left and North Korea were more interested in good relations with Japan than the right here was.
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I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.
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My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?
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I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense.
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A world view is probably an expression of self.
