Leonard Peikoff Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
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I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.
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When I was a teenager, I used to come to Selfridges, and it was very swanky and overwhelming, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' I would never have imaged having my own area in the beauty hall! It's incredible.
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Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
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Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
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To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.
