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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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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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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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
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Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.
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When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?
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My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.
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I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.
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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.
