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.Leon Russell
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
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.
Ram Dass -
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
Victor Mitchell -
You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
Caitlin Moran -
There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
Jack Kemp -
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Pankaj Mishra -
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.
Harlan Coben -
A woman's health is her capital.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston -
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
Barbara Bush -
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
Irrfan Khan
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving -
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov -
It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
Patrick Lussier -
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter -
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.
Gary Ackerman -
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
Orson Scott Card
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I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna lead you there. So it's hard to find great songs.
Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion -
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
Piper Laurie -
My father's not the type of person that teaches you by saying, 'Come here, son. I'm going to tell you about real estate.' You learn by watching it. If you don't pick it up, it's your problem.
Donald Trump, Jr. -
What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.
Orson Scott Card -
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
Adam McKay -
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.
Leon Russell