Leon Russell Quotes
The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
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The problem isn't a Congress that won't cut spending or a president who won't raise taxes. The problem is an American public with a bottomless sense of entitlement to federal money.
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You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.
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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
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I do not support a federal minimum wage. I think every state has a different economy, a different cost of living. I don't believe that's the role of the federal government.
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The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.
