LeRoy Neiman Quotes
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
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Kid, nobody really gets anywhere in this life. Everybody just picks someplace to hunker down and barricade themselves in. Some of us just got better bricks than others.
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I'm running for president. Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.
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Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.
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I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
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It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
