Ella Leya Quotes
Mama, did you teach me to be honest, to keep my integrity no matter what? Why did you tell me that bad truths were better than good lies?
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I wanted to be a world champion.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
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If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
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If you're a 50-year-old guy, and you're sitting around the house with - you know, and just getting fatter, feeling sorry for yourself, get up and move your body and see what it does to your life and to your mind and to your happiness and to your energy levels. And I get all that from boxing.
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My family never took vacations; we never traveled together. We never did anything. My spring breaks were going home to help my dad at the restaurant.
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A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.
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My job is just to go out and play hard every day.
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Leslie Nielsen was my favorite growing up; getting to work with him was amazing.
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I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
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Dreams never wear you down.
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I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
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So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.
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As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.
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In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.
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Mama, did you teach me to be honest, to keep my integrity no matter what? Why did you tell me that bad truths were better than good lies?
