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Leon Bridges Quotes

My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother at a party, he noticed her long legs and was like, 'Woo woo!' I like to incorporate those stories into my music. They just seem to fit.

Leon Bridges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 13, 1989

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Mother Music Me Long Party Legs

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

Andy Andrews

Car Parents Mom Homeless Year Bad

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

Meghan Daum

Words Out Who How Figure Put

I experience God as the power of love.

John Shelby Spong

Love God Power Experience

Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.

Robin Williams

Work Great Game Comedy You Play

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

Miguel Syjuco

Strength Courage Best I Am People

I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?

Jonathan Levine

City Tough Think Choose Why Trend

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Chinua Achebe

People Society Create Different Each

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

Corey Stoll

Romantic People Think Generation Say

My Chicago is beautiful and diverse. It was able to give me all parts of the world all in one.

Clemantine Wamariya

Beautiful Me World Chicago Give Me

At Grudge, we just push each other. Whether it's sparring five rounds or rolling and doing drills, I do most of my cardio at practice. As far as running outside or riding a bike? That's not fighting, so I only do things that are going to help me in the Octagon.

Brendan Schaub

Bike Practice Me Fighting Push Help

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

Brad Delp

Soul I Am Lonely Am Brad Mr

What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.

Peyton Reed

Loved Comedy Easy You More See