Hamilton Leithauser Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.
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If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.
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When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, the net result of which is the same as if the photon hit only on the surface.
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I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.
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I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
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Ironically, I like working with people.
