Leroy Hood Quotes
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I'm still 19, and I've got a lot to learn. I've got to keep improving and not get too carried away with myself.
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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
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Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.
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People say you make your own luck; I don't think that's the case, but maybe you contribute to your luck by recognizing it and taking advantage of it.
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My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
