Leon Uris Quotes
My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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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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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
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Domestically, a lot of people think Xi Jinping is becoming Mao Zedong. By giving Hong Kong democracy, people would look at them as enlightened leaders.
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In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.
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A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.
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My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.
