Leslie Dewan Quotes
I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power was a logical way to do something to help the environment.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I don't believe in murder.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something – I worked in HR at the time – they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.
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Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.
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No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'
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The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
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The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
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Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.
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I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power was a logical way to do something to help the environment.
