LeRoy Neiman Quotes
I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material, but how do you memorise 90 minutes? That's one hell of a long speech. I've always had problems with that.
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If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.
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I have always trusted my impulses. I have always believed that once I'm in the circumstances, whatever they may be, I will find the right way.
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I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
