Michael Leunig Quotes

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

Michael Leunig

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When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

Jessie Matthews

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It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Robert Plant

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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

Robert Lloyd

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I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Jeff Greenfield

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Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living.

Stefan Hell

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The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?

Stefan Sagmeister

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I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

Spike Lee

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Soichiro Honda

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Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in 2007 when our governmental, banking, and news media servers were hit with 'distributed denial-of-service attacks,' which is when hackers overload servers until they shut down.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.

Rob Lowe

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Knowledge is the real power.

Ronnie Coleman

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Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

Roger Altman

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