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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
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As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
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What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
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It is kind of a problem in America that so many Americans believe if they elect a different president, everything is going to be fine.
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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.
