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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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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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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As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
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I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.
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You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it's difficult. There's part of you that doesn't want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you're surrendering.
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I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.
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You can't back-engineer a brand.
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Animals that are killed for their flesh lead miserable lives. They are kept in disgusting conditions. The simplest little thing you can do not to hurt animals is just not eat them. I'm bringing my four children up vegetarian, and I know absolutely that I'm giving them the very best start in life.
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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.
