Leon Uris Quotes
All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Good design should be honest.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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Every time I get dressed, I try to channel a little bit of Kanye West and a little bit of Sailor Moon.
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'The great commandment of the narratives is that your life must be meaningful,' said Charon. 'If knowing the truth strips the meaning away, then the truth must be suppressed.'
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.
