Leon Russell Quotes

The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.

Leon Russell

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• A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

  

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• My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

  

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• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

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• I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

  

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• Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

  

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• The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Guy
  • Texas
  • Insurance