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 I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to look like a beauty pageant child.
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At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.
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Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
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Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
