Leon Uris Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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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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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
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Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.
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Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?
