Les Baxter Quotes
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.
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When I'm not streaming, I have time to reflect on all the growth, and I don't like that. I'd rather just be home playing. I'm like, 'I haven't played a celebrity in a while. I haven't done something big in a while. Is it because I'm slowing down?'
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I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.
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I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
