Leon Russell Quotes
I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!
Quotes to Explore
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.
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I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.
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But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.
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It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day.
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Art is a luxury but also a necessity.
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I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!
