Leon Uris Quotes

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

Leon Uris

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• If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • School
  • Education
  • Better

• In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • America
  • Food

• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Once

• If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • You
  • Mom
  • Lucky

• All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Live
  • Faith

• Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Work
  • Done
  • Today

• The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Challenge

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Together
  • Song

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Working

• I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Loved
  • Been
  • Ever

• I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Mind
  • Path
  • Living

• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Money
  • Society
  • Almost

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Yourself

• I believe every artiste, at some point, needs to take a step back.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Believe

• His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

  

  William Golding
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Taken

• Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Political
  • Education
  • Alone

• The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Genius
  • Birth
  • Creative Man

• I'm afraid this man will kill me some day.

  

  Nicole Brown Simpson
  • Man
  • Day
  • Kill

• I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Struggle
  • Inspiration
  • Irish