Leslie Nielsen Quotes
I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
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God bless nannies.
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
