Leighton Meester Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
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I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.
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I'm so accustomed to being alone.
