Leon Black Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
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There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
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I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'
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'Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love.'
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I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
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Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
Elliott Erwitt -
I had a really hard time in Orange County. I was a nerd. I was watching foreign cinema when I was 13 and talking about how 'Hope and Glory' should be a foreign film.
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A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.
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I am a YouTube artist.
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There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm just the opposite. I actually enjoy it.
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The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I find it absolutely terrifying that - something about the way the machine just kind of coughed up money with no difficulty.
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'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants.
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The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
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My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.
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Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
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Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
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Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.
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Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
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Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
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Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
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I brings the ruckus to the ladies.
