LeRoy Neiman Quotes
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'
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I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.
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Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
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Blood doubly unites us, for we share the same blood and we have spilled blood.
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It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
