John Leonard Quotes
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
