Leonard Baskin Quotes
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'
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I've never been truly hammered... Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying away on weekends doing shows around Texas and the country.
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I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
