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.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Want
  • Change
  • Me

• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mind
  • Best
  • Body

• I never sing in the shower either.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Never
  • Sing
  • Shower

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Support
  • Cold
  • Loving

• I'm a pretty big news junkie.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Pretty
  • News
  • Big

• 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.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Science
  • Myself

• There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Win
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Young
  • Italian

• The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Society
  • Failure
  • Greatest

• There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Years

• I've always loved a challenge.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Challenge
  • Loved

• I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Things
  • Personality
  • Mysterious

• I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Born

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Real
  • Artist

• 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?

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • School
  • Experience

• In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

  

  John Cornforth
  • World
  • May
  • Truth

• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Existence
  • Human Nature
  • Irony

• The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Good
  • Strong

• I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

  

  Atticus Shaffer

• If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Sleep
  • Spirit

• Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

  

  Leroy Hood