Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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For me, family has always come first.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Even for the people in the bank into which the other banks are merging, they also have a lot of apprehension. There is always an apprehension that opportunities will go down. There are apprehensions of displacement. Many of these apprehensions are unfounded.
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We are very, very far from recognising polygamy in our country, thank God.
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Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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It is utterly asinine that people continually go to comedy shows without bothering to see if their sensibilities line up with the comedians.
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I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
