Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes
I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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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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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
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If you look at the heritage of the cable business, if you can own a niche, you have a good chance of succeeding.
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A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
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I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.
