Hamilton Leithauser Quotes
The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
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The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant.
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No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.
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The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.
