Leander Paes Quotes
Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
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The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
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Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.
