Leon Russell Quotes
I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!
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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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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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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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If I was gay, there would be no closet, you would never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was 12. Because I know with all certainty in my mind, there is nothing wrong with being gay, and you know it.
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Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
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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!
