Leaving Me Quotes - Page 18

• I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Engineering, Hours, Thirty

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• CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk.

  David Letterman

  Mistake, Leaving, Dumb

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• It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's no soul. Movies used to be about people. It's as though we don't tell stories any more. The studios have to make money, and if you want to make $20 million, you have to spend $200 million.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Heart, People, Soul

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My love lives outside my window
  Clouds burst to give water
  So her love can grow
  My love smiles to me each morning
  Says she'll never leave me
  And I know it's so

  Stevie Wonder

  Morning, Love Life, Clouds

  Song: Outside My Window

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• I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Betrayal, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jobs, Quiet, Praying

  Source: www.thehighcalling.org

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• By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics, they are following the logic and laws of economics when they leave Guatemala and go to Mexico, leave Mexico and come to the U.S., leave Africa and go to Spain and Europe looking for jobs.

  Benjamin Barber

  Jobs, Europe, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.

  Steve Coogan

  Mother, Book, Leave Me Alone

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• My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

  Emily Blunt

  Feelings, Stories, Cry

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2012.

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• In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Latin, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Leave Me Alone, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel—it’s that postmodern thing—it’s more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being’s experience.

  Andre Dubus

  Beautiful, Book, Fall

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• It's not fair. Why won't the media leave me alone? Why?

  Michael J. Jackson

  Media, Leave Me Alone, Tabloids

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• Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say, son, he said, he say, you know it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will always believe in your ability to mend your ways.

  Bob Dylan

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Bob Dylan's acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys, www.expectingrain.com. February 20, 1991.

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• I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.

  Linus Torvalds

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their interpretations of the Bible, attempting to have theological debate with them. When I'm on right-wing whackjob radio, when people call up to inform me that I'm going to hell, I concede the point. "I'm going to hell. Yes. Can you leave me alone now?"

  Dan Savage

  Religious, Mistake, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

  Michael Haneke

  Moving, Book, Reading

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

  James Thurber

  Flower, Writing, Leaving

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.149, Library of America

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• I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

  Alan Ball

  Book, Twilight, Vampire

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• I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Faces, Determined

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever you do," Seth said around a chewy mouthful, "try not to leave me down here too long. You can only play a certain amount of Yahtzee games in a row before you become a lunatic." "I'll keep that in mind.

  Brandon Mull

  Games, Play, Long

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• My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little I know about the history of drug control policy in the United States leaves me thinking that a hugely important moment came when the lawyers win out over the doctors on this matter.

  Glenn Loury

  Prayer, Book, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's nearly full dark. We should go." "We? I thought you were going to leave me alone." "I lied," Jace said without a shred of embarrassment.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Leave Me Alone, Lied

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

  Daniel Keyes

  Fall, Leave Me Alone, Want

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You don't have to love me. Just don't leave me," he said against my leg

  Abbi Glines

  Legs, Don't Leave Me, Said

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Fallen Too Far Trilogy: Includes Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far and Forever Too Far”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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