Leif Garrett Quotes
There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
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The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
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There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
