Leon Russell Quotes
I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.
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Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do-for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.
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I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don’t value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
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You can find comedy anywhere.
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I like the Beatles very much, and there are certain things about the Stones that I like.
