Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes

I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.

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• To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
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• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
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• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
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• I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.

  

  Madylin Sweeten
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• There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
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• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

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• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life.

  

  Paul Washer
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• Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.

  

  Peter Benchley
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• Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• Then lies him down the lubber fiend,And stretched out all the chimney's length,Basks at the fire his hairy strength.

  

  John Milton
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• I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
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• I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe