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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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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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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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.
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Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.
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I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
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I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.
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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
