LeRoy Neiman Quotes
Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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Wise men say that time is like a river. I say time is like a river of SHIT... and as you float down that river in your little canoe, your paddles are getting smaller and smaller.
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It's good to be alive.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
