Leon Redbone Quotes

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

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• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Done
  • Father

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Body

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Vision
  • Solution
  • Ending

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Law

• I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.

  

  Inara George
  • Think
  • Like
  • I Can

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • World
  • Great
  • History

• Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Food
  • Vision

• The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Control
  • Government

• My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.

  

  Anna Torv
  • Up
  • Friends
  • House

• 'During my next visit with you, fellow-believers,' he said, 'I shall tell you a parable about people who do things that they think God Almighty wants done. In the meanwhile, you would do well, for background on this parable, to read everything that you can lay your hands on about the Spanish Inquisition.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • People
  • God
  • Done

• Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Social

• I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

  

  Eleanor Parker
  • Personality

• There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Spanish