Gene LeBell Quotes
If you fight for a living you can't give a damn about the opponent because they're trying to take food out of your mouth and your kids' mouths. You're in competition with everybody. The trick is, just don't let them know you're competing against them.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
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I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.
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I've been very happy to see some of the success that I've had along the way in opening the eyes of people, especially people who listen to music.
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I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
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I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.
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Around eight or nine years back, I participated in 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.' The point of coming on the show was that a person coming from music family can also compete with people from all over India.
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Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.
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I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.
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If you fight for a living you can't give a damn about the opponent because they're trying to take food out of your mouth and your kids' mouths. You're in competition with everybody. The trick is, just don't let them know you're competing against them.
