Leon Redbone Quotes
I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.
Quotes to Explore
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.
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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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Kids hate anyone who is different.
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if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.
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Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.
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I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.
