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.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Father
  • Game
  • Involved

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• 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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • Want
  • Feel Good

• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Kindness

• I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • Word

• I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Love
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Earl Browder
  • History
  • System
  • Socialism

• Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Men
  • Literature
  • Wealth

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

  

  Alexander Theroux
  • True
  • Pet

• I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • World
  • Good
  • Friends

• They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

  

  Robert Frost
  • True
  • Thought

• People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • People

• 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.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
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