Michael Leunig Quotes

Today, people call each other 'guys' - this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics.

Michael Leunig

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I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

Joan Lunden

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I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.

Andy Mineo

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My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

Jean Fritz

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It's just such an addictive sport. Only now I can understand why ex-fighters come back. That addiction helps me set new goals and targets.

Amir Khan

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I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing 'The Lying Game.'

Ruth Ware

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Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.

RuPaul

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Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

Mike Wilson

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I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

Mickey Gilley

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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Luc de Clapiers

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Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

Donella Meadows

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Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

Alison Mosshart

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Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized in the same historical period have been given names based on characteristics that have no relation to one another, and thus no common criteria.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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