Les Baxter Quotes
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
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That's always the actor's worst nightmare: that what they're working on is going to be the last thing they'll ever work on. No lie. So I was very excited to land 'Girlfriends' Guide' immediately.
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I believe in 'intelligence,' and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it-an I.Q. or the like.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
