Leslie Nielsen Quotes
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.
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Until I was about 14, I was so shy.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
