Al Leiter Quotes
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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.
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Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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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.
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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.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.
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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.
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Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.
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'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.
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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.
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If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.
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I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
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I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.
