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

• 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

• 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

• I'd smile so much my face would crack in two Then you could fix it with your kissing glue I'd like that Yes, I'd like that

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Smile

• A lot of times, you see everyone's highlight reels because of social media. You don't know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that's going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Time
  • Work

• The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Energy

• When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.

  

  John Millington Synge
  • Writing
  • House
  • Learning

• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • Airplane

• I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Theatre

• If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Laughter

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

  

  Leroy Hood