Leeroy Thornhill Quotes
Performing is the most powerful drug on earth. I get a come-down if we don't gig for a few weeks, it's unbelievable.
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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It was the most enthralling episode in my life
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'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?
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Goodness Gracious The Paper! Where the Cash at? Where the Stash at?
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Who's your daddy? Who's your baby?Who's your buddy? Who's your friend?And who's the one guy that you come runnin' toWhen your lovelife starts tumblin'?I got the money if you got the honeyLet's cut a deal, let's make a planWho's your daddy? Who's your baby?Who's your buddy? Who's your man?
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I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift."
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.
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Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.
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It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.
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Performing is the most powerful drug on earth. I get a come-down if we don't gig for a few weeks, it's unbelievable.
