Andrew Leigh Quotes
For every serious injury or death that is saved by switching from a medium car to a large SUV, two more result.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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Carlos is better. His range of motion improved. He pushed it hard yesterday, but we'll just have to see.
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A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.
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Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.
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It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.
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I want to remove my hat, close my eyes,and feel the sun, warm and intermittent, on my face.
