Leon Russell Quotes
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
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I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
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You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
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Pride that dines on Vanity sups on Contempt.
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The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
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The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.
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At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.
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I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.
