Leon Russell Quotes
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.
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I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.
