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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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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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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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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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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I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
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I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.
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I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.
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It's just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with 'mature gardens' of full-grown trees.
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It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
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Ironically, I like working with people.
