Leslie Banks Quotes
It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I like to watch surfers and skaters that are really fast and really powerful and everything flows.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
