Leo Ornstein Quotes

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Leo Ornstein

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

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• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  

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• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

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• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

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• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

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• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

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• Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

  

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• On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.

  

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• Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
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• I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.

  

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• I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.

  

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• I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'

  

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• If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

  

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• If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

  

  Mara Wilson
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• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  

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• It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

  

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• We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

  

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• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

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• Any increase in surveillance of marginalized communities for the sake of security theater have expanded the cycle of criminalization that queer people - especially queer people of color - are forced to navigate.

  

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• Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

  

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• Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

  

  K. A. Paul
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• I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

  

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• When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

  

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• Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

  

  Leo Ornstein