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'm immensely fortunate to have been involved in the 'Star Trek' universe. It has been a lot of fun, and I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity to have been part of something so important to so many people.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.
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My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.
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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.
