Leon Russell Quotes
I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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My best friend is my husband.
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No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
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Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
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Tolstoy was an advocate of non-resistance only because he was protected from people’s impudence by his innumerable friends. One man can stand for non-resistance, because those who stand for resistance will protect him. You will not be able to do without resistance advocates.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take are of your words when you are with people.
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I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.
