Mitch Leigh Quotes
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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Good material is good material.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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A black belt is what you prove to be, but also what it means in your heart.
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The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'
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Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren’t doing anything at all?
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I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.
