Leroy Hood Quotes
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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Radio is for driving.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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I don't remember feeling love.
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
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I could have coached better.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks like on a given day. If I can get quiet enough to truly check-in with myself, I usually end up on the right track.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
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Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.
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I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.
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There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
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I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.
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And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
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In the end, what counts is what you do.
