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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Excellence always sells.
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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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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
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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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Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.
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9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.
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A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.
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You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
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I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.
