Al Leiter Quotes

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

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• I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Bad
  • Healing
  • Bad Times

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Live
  • House

• Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • High
  • Success

• Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Love
  • Man
  • Love Is

• There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Wait

• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Why
  • Government
  • Lies

• The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Style
  • Natural
  • Played

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Dancing
  • Percent
  • OK

• People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Children
  • Confidence
  • Child

• Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

  

  Larry King
  • America
  • Today
  • Summer

• 'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Done
  • Success

• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • War
  • Me

• If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

  

  Aaron Allston
  • God
  • You
  • Server

• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

  

  Lesley Visser

• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Truth
  • Evil
  • Attitude

• I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

  

  Luke Ford
  • People
  • Home
  • Business

• I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

  

  Al Leiter