Leon Russell Quotes
I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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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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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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When I first started in the industry, there were - this is prior to the era of computer graphics and all these digital tools - there were some pretty rigid, technologically imposed limitations about how you shoot things, because if you didn't shoot 'em the right way, you couldn't make the shot work.
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When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.
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What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?
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I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.
