Leah Remini Quotes

If you don't care about somebody, you don't even bother to fight with them.

Leah Remini

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• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Year
  • Achievement

• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
  • Things
  • Reveal

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Cherish

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Mind
  • Woman
  • Chance

• We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Being
  • Inside
  • U.S.

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Love
  • American

• Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Blessed

• I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Best
  • Impossible
  • Characters

• My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Competitive

• I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Fighting

• Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Inspiration

• I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Teacher

• If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Family
  • Matter
  • Find

• Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l.’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Together

• Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Boredom
  • Temples
  • Discussing

• I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • People
  • Time
  • Comedy

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Morality
  • States

• If you don't care about somebody, you don't even bother to fight with them.

  

  Leah Remini