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Leroy Hood Quotes

For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.

Leroy Hood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 10, 1938

Topics

Future Health Time Best People Know

I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing.

John Niven

Fire Writing Book My Own First Own

I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.

Jeff Dunham

Think Bad Back Boy Become Out

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

Sophie Kinsella

Love Best Feel Friends Flaws Being

I like Ryan McGinley's work.

Juergen Teller

Work Like Ryan

Death is not my best subject.

Judd Nelson

Best Death Subject

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Soul Buy Monkeys Sell Your Peanuts

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

Donald Rumsfeld

Small Dangerous Precision Error Lack

I suppose I've been very fortunate in terms of my longevity and my voice and the way it has held up over the years. I hope to be able to keep on doing what I'm doing until I can't do it anymore.

Colm Wilkinson

Hope Voice Doing Way Longevity Over

No one tells actors anything; we're always the last people to find out.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

People Find Always Out Anything

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Bryant H. McGill

Simple Politeness Bring Social Even

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.

Wynton Marsalis

Depression Progress World Better

Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.

Piyush Goyal

Job Poverty Creation Bring Beat