Leon Redbone Quotes

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Death
  • Man
  • Hero

• When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Growing
  • Politics
  • Identity

• I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Different
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Good
  • Goal
  • Moon

• My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Man
  • Me
  • Feet

• I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Time
  • Great
  • Career

• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • You
  • English
  • Say

• We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Morning
  • Same
  • Media

• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Good
  • Age
  • Practice

• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Believe
  • See

• In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Long
  • Job
  • Stop

• I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Man
  • Best
  • Research

• Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Obsessed
  • Close
  • Ingredients

• It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Trying
  • Rock
  • Yourself

• For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Trees

• I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Done

• I think it's really important that people can look at this show and be offended by it. Hopefully, then people will understand that this is still very much a problem we need to solve in other parts of the world. At least we have antibiotics.

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Solve

• In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Prayer

• It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Different
  • Mind

• What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sleep

• I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.

  

  Wesley Snipes
  • Energy
  • Sometimes
  • Certain

• I would like to speak 10 languages.

  

  Leon Redbone