Leonard Shlain Quotes
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth.
Quotes to Explore
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
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Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth.
