John Leonard Quotes
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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We live too long for one marriage.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.
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Who provides the love and a path to reconciliation? It's not Planned Parenthood; it's the Catholic Church, the other Christian churches, and the ministries they have created.
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When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
