LeRoy Neiman Quotes
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
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Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Don Conroy was larger than life and there was never a room he entered that he left without making his mark. At some point in his life, he passed from being merely memorably to being legendary.
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The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.
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Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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I believe this judgment should firmly convince any trade unionist that it is useless hoping for justice in the courts of this land. The only way we are going to obtain justice in my view is by fighting for democracy as our forefathers did in establishing the trade union and Labour movements.
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In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
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Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
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My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
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We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.
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Friends and Comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to tell you and how to say it. Our beloved leader, Bapu as we called him, the Father of the Nation, is no more.
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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A bird in the boughs sang "June," And "June" hummed a bee In a Bacchic glee As he tumbled over and over Drunk with the honey-dew.
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It ends all things: birds, trees, flowers, mountain tops, and business; it grinds stones to sand, and as terrible as it is, and it's the most beautiful thing we have in our lives - time.
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Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
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As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.
