Leelee Sobieski Quotes
If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
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The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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It’s been a while coming and the last couple of years have been perilous at times for PI, particularly because of a legal fight that set us back. So besides it being sick music, to return with such a strong set of releases feels like a vindication of our rights as artists too.
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I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.
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If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.
