Hamilton Leithauser Quotes
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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And I know that all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That’s the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can’t do the work, or it’s taken from you, then what’s any good? You have to have something....
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I feel it's OK if not everybody agrees with me or likes me. The weird thing was it turned into people thinking I said we deserved it. I didn't say that - but Americans do need to look at their behavior in the world. It's easy to say, 'That was awful,' and hard to ask, 'Is there a way I can amend?'
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They sailed away for a year and a dayTo the land where the bong-tree grows.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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Ironically, I like working with people.
