Leone Quotes

#1. The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. - Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Oliver Sacks

#2. And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

Claudia Cardinale

#3. One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

Antoine Fuqua

#4. Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#5. Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War in that, or even the idea that - the movie that Leone was going to do before he died was going to be a movie about the battle of Stalingrad.

Quentin Tarantino

#6. The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

Ishmael Beah

#7. I was always a fan of the great old spaghetti Westerns, the Sergio Leone films. But the one that always sticks with me, that I just thought was brilliant and perfect is "Cat Ballou." Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou."

Johnny Depp

#8. The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.

Ed Royce

#9. However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

Alex Morrison

#10. Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

Luciano Vincenzoni

#11. Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America' is a brilliant movie. It's about four hours long, but it's so well done.

Erik Estrada

#12. Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

#13. The life changing moment for me what the first time I went to a war zone and that was Sierra Leone. I took two weeks, eleven years ago and I went. I wasn't an Ambassador or anything I just asked to go and I was allowed to go. It was like someone smacked me in the face.

Angelina Jolie

#14. Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

Aminatta Forna

#15. I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

Alex Morrison

#16. I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Cary Fukunaga

#17. Though it's thousands of miles away
Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today
Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs
Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

Kanye West

#18. The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

Ed Royce

#19. By 1445 they had reached the mouth of the Senegal River; in 1458 they discovered and colonized the Cape Verde Islands; by 1462 they had reached Sierra Leone; and in 1473 the Portuguese mariner Lopo Goncalves crossed the equator.

Clark B. Hinckley

#20. I had covered wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and elsewhere, but the work had started to feel routine. I wanted to leave the journalistic herd, to find a project that would both daunt and inspire me. Facing down the Congo was just such a project.

Tim Butcher

#21. There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

Edward Zwick

#22. Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.

Carolyn See

#23. In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

Kate Adie

#24. I think they do have to get it right in Sierra Leone. There has to be something in there now to establish confidence, to stabilize the situation, and then to move to some sort of political negotiations.

Alex Morrison

#25. In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Ishmael Beah

#26. Sierra Leone and Liberia must remain vigilant, that if you think somebody is sick with Ebola, you must get help immediately. Otherwise there could be a resurgence of Ebola. So everybody must remain vigilant.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

#27. But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

Claudia Cardinale

#28. In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite directors.

Michelle MacLaren

#29. ...they did not come down hard on Leone because she had murdered her lover. It was because her sister was a nun.

Chancellor Press

#30. I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

Idris Elba

#31. Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

Ishmael Beah

#32. It was a sight to make Zane Grey reach for his ballpoint, or Sergio Leone send out for another fifty foot of standard eight.

Robert Rankin

#33. Words can't fix my life.
Words can't give me a family.
Words can't do jack.
You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#34. American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

Spike Lee

#35. I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world.

Ishmael Beah

#36. Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

Antoine Fuqua

#37. Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

Antoine Fuqua

#38. I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

Mads Mikkelsen

#39. Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

Quentin Tarantino

#40. Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.

Mae Jemison

#41. If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.

Douglas Leone

#42. Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

Douglas Leone

#43. Smoking and drinking too much is not the way to fitness. Love your body and treat it good.

Sunny Leone

#44. No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.

Alice-Leone Moats

#45. You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.

Douglas Leone

#46. It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

Alice-Leone Moats

#47. I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

Ishmael Beah

#48. There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

Douglas Leone

#49. In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.

Douglas Leone

#50. We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

Douglas Leone

#51. [On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties
the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.

Alice-Leone Moats

#52. We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food.

Ishmael Beah

#53. I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

Douglas Leone

#54. A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Douglas Leone

#55. We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.

Douglas Leone

#56. Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

Douglas Leone

#57. There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

Sunny Leone

#58. The function of the flashback is Freudian ... You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.

Sergio Leone

#59. will also not use what I call the shellfish claim.

Katie Leone

#60. Men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.

Alice-Leone Moats

#61. During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.

Douglas Leone

#62. I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.

Douglas Leone

#63. When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

Sergio Leone

#64. We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

Douglas Leone

#65. Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.

Ishmael Beah

#66. We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.

Douglas Leone

#67. We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

Douglas Leone

#68. In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

Douglas Leone

#69. Writing is like cooking. You toss in a bunch of ingredients and hope the combination of flavors will appeal to someone's taste.

Dee Leone

#70. Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

Sergio Leone

#71. The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Douglas Leone

#72. If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

Douglas Leone

#73. When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.

Sunny Leone

#74. If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.

Douglas Leone

#75. We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to work as a team for the benefit of the founders.

Douglas Leone

#76. I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

Sergio Leone

#77. I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.

Douglas Leone

#78. The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

Sergio Leone

#79. My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

Sergio Leone

#80. When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

Sergio Leone

#81. My family didn't find out until I told them, which was when I won Penthouse Pet of the Year. They took it as well as I could have hoped. I am their daughter and they love me, so it was great when they didn't disown me.

Sunny Leone

#82. Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

Douglas Leone

#83. Raise as little as you can to get you to something that you can show - plus maybe a quarter or two so you have a little bit of cushion - and then raise some more money. Raise as little - not as much - as you can because that's the most expensive equity you're going to sell.

Douglas Leone

#84. I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.

Sergio Leone

#85. Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

Douglas Leone

#86. You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

Douglas Leone

#87. Traveling by motor is just one situation after another ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.

Alice-Leone Moats

#88. The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.

Douglas Leone

#89. Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

Douglas Leone

#90. In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

Sergio Leone

#91. We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.

Douglas Leone

#92. For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.

Alice-Leone Moats