Leon Blum Quotes
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.
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Your skin is like a plant. You have to water it. Make sure it's hydrated, not just squeaky clean.
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
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Biggest lesson I learned my first year in the NFL is no one gives a crap about what you did last week. This league is about what have you done for me now. That's the NFL. It's also our culture. So you keep working hard because that's the biggest truth about football.
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I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
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When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.