Leif Garrett Quotes
Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.
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It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.
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real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
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My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.
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Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
