Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes
When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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They hate whom they fear.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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A lot of people might think the job of a model isn't necessary anymore, but just like an actor, singer - how they make you feel a certain way - how watching a dancer gives you emotion, models can do the exact same thing to many different people.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.
