Leon Russell Quotes
Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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My daughter very independent. But if she's upset about something, she will absolutely let me know. She's great - a real tough cookie.
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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
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Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
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I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.
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God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.
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Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.
