Leroy Hood Quotes
Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I'm a pretty big news junkie.
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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I've always loved a challenge.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
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I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?
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When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
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Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.
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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make one-third of the money?" My answer is that I'm trying to do it ethically. What does that mean, exactly? That conflict is a big part of my art.
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Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
