Leigh-Allyn Baker Quotes

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

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• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Place
  • Mad
  • Strange

• I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Play
  • Day

• What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Woman
  • Sword

• Hip-hop was started on groups.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Hip Hop
  • Groups
  • Started

• Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Death
  • Desire

• If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Guy

• The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Awareness
  • Yours
  • Richer

• My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Time
  • Job
  • Father

• As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

  

  Rafe Spall
  • God
  • Me
  • Cool

• You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Long
  • Speak
  • Injustice

• The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • End
  • Part

• The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Stop
  • Difficult

• If I could read it, I could play it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Play
  • Read
  • If I Could

• I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Perfect
  • Day

• Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Time
  • Better
  • Confident

• Algorithms learn by being fed certain images, often chosen by engineers, and the system builds a model of the world based on those images. If a system is trained on photos of people who are overwhelmingly white, it will have a harder time recognizing nonwhite faces.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Some people don't like competition, but competition is fine. It generates new ideas, keeps you alert.

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus
  • Competition
  • Alert
  • Generates

• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Doubt
  • Said
  • Try

• How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Power

• I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

  

  Leigh-Allyn Baker