LeRoy Neiman Quotes

But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

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• Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Animal
  • King
  • Once

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • May
  • Human

• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

  Ma Jian
  • World
  • Stage
  • China

• I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Think
  • Couple

• Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Job
  • Personal

• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Player
  • Vision

• If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Time
  • Done
  • Easy

• Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Done
  • City
  • Positive

• I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Fun

• To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Country
  • Political

• Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Failure
  • Revolution

• The world is still sexist.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • World
  • Still
  • Sexist

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Think
  • Me
  • Play

• I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • Together
  • Day

• When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Time
  • Man
  • Reflect

• You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

  

  Rickey Henderson
  • Running
  • Always
  • Believed

• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Mind
  • War
  • Earth

• Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Good
  • Job
  • Team

• But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.

  

  Daniela Hantuchova

• Fear lowers your immune system so let’s all find some time to be grateful and glad for what we still have. Seek out the truth and tune out all loud and vexing voices of economic propaganda. In this, human lives should come first, the health of the Planet should come first.

  

  Alexander Polinsky
  • Fear
  • Health
  • Immune System

• But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

  

  LeRoy Neiman