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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Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.
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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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If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces.
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The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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All truths are bloody truths to me.
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I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move.
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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?
