Leon Redbone Quotes
My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of 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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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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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.
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That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.
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The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well.
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My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.
