Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes
The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.
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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
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Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.
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For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
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Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long.
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The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
