Leo Sayer Quotes
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
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If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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Do you know what, I don't even like dancing.
