Leslie Nielsen Quotes
Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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At medical centers such as the Cleveland Clinic and Kaiser Permanente, teams of doctors and nurses provide coordinated care while working for salary instead of getting paid for every procedure.
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I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.
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The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.
