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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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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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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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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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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Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.
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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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The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
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Gradually, I realized that the surveillance cameras plus the email and cell phone monitoring was creating a Virtual Panopticon – a digital prison created and maintained by computer networks that enclosed all of us within its invisible walls.
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Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
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If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.
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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.
