Buck Leonard Quotes
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
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I love people and I love to be around people.
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My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'
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He never gave us a script and we never asked - we were safe in his hands.
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I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.
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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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There are things - I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You're going to compete; you're going to fight this one and this one.
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The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'
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Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.
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I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to be abundant fossil sites, but there is also a lot of natural knowledge embedded in those myths, showing that Greek perceptions about fossils were pretty amazing for prescientific people.
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There's some bells you can't unring.
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Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
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In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.
