Leon Uris Quotes
You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.Leon Uris
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
Basil Rathbone -
Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
Dana Spiotta -
I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
Lady Gaga -
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
Ian Anderson -
I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
L'Wren Scott -
People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
Zack Snyder
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston -
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
Barbara Kingsolver -
In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
Dakota Fanning -
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle -
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
A.J. Styles
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
Flula Borg -
The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
Wendell Berry -
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
Yael Naim -
Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
Florence Henderson -
What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
Patrick Lencioni
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Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.
Naftali Bennett -
You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.
Rachael Ray -
I live in New York. I lost some 150 friends, neighbors and constituents on Sept. 11.
Peter T. King -
White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.
E. Lockhart -
As I read out the text, through a half-opened window near me, two large withered oak-leaves silently floated into the little church in the view of all the congregation. I could not but pause for a minute till they should preach their sermon before I began mine.
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd -
You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.
Leon Uris