Leon Russell Quotes

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

Leon Russell

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• People always want to doubt you.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Want
  • Doubt

• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Moment

• When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

  

  Kajol
  • Mother
  • Dying
  • Gift

• There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Me

• First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Purpose
  • Hollywood
  • Soup

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Acting

• We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Always
  • Boundaries
  • Push

• I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Attitude

• We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • Real
  • City

• There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Woman
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Pool

• During the holidays, I often see my sisters, who still, even after all these years, can't always seem to agree with me. They take silly, indefensible positions, such as denying that my parents loved me more because I was the better child.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Silly

• I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • People
  • Money

• There have been some outages but so far, we've had no serious problems other than that the prices are sky-high.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Problems
  • Prices
  • Sky-high

• Is this complicated, risky banking system the best we can have?

  

  Anat R. Admati
  • Have
  • Risky
  • Banking System

• Both economics and politics are false sciences.

  

  Leon Russell