Leon Russell Quotes
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.
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Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.
