Elmore Leonard Quotes
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
E. L. Doctorow -
I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
Vincent Cassel -
I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
Mae West -
I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
Laura Schlessinger -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
Quiara Alegria Hudes -
Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
Sam Altman -
It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
Sam Hunt -
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
Irving Babbitt -
The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
Haley Reinhart -
Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
Said Nursi
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
Parker Stevenson -
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden -
Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel -
Hanson will be associated with 'MMMBop' and long blonde hair in the same way the Beatles are associated with mop tops and suits.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'
Hank Azaria -
I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.
Haruki Murakami
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
Ted Rall -
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.
Charles Duhigg -
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
Elmore Leonard