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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I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
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Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.
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Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
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Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
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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.
