Leon Russell Quotes

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

Leon Russell

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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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• 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.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Chance

• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• 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.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Love
  • Football
  • Sports

• When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Look
  • Sexy
  • Elephant

• 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.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• 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.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • World
  • Trying
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Question
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Need
  • Trouble
  • Bank

• 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.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Age
  • Story
  • Meaningful

• 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.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Being

• 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.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Competition
  • Stand
  • Speed

• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mother
  • Sins
  • Beware

• The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Happy
  • Circumstances

• We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Science

• I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

  

  Jason Henderson
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Movie

• In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

  

  John Sergeant Wise
  • Lost

• You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Performers

• The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Believe