Leslie Cockburn Quotes
When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.Leslie Cockburn
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
Kate Moss -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
P. J. O'Rourke -
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
Naomi Wolf -
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
Canelo Alvarez
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
Barbara Amiel -
It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
Owen Hart -
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
Yulia Tymoshenko -
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White -
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac -
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
Randy Johnson
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
Carl Bernstein -
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
Flip Wilson -
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
Barney Frank -
You want your partner to objectify you.
Patricia Arquette -
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving -
I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
Walter Alston
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
Naya Rivera -
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.
Zac Efron -
..., and the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.
Malcolm Bradbury -
New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.
Kodi Smit-McPhee -
When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
Leslie Cockburn