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I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.


Leonard Lauder

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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
RUPERT BROOKE The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
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DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

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LEONARD BOSWELL This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments ...
LEONARD COHEN A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
LEONARD COHEN The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and ...
LEONARD BOSWELL Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sound...
LEONARD MLODINOW I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot...
LEONARD COHEN I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall w...
LEONARD NIMOY I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
LEONARD SLATKIN Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, gr...
LEONARD SUSSKIND I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chantin...
LEONARD COHEN Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin m...
LEONARD MALTIN The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control ...
LEONARD BOSWELL Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and th...
ELMORE LEONARD Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the ex...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my e...
LEONARD COHEN The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers...
ELMORE LEONARD A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
LEONARD MALTIN On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figur...
LEONARD SLATKIN You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.
LEONARD BAILEY Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added...
LEONARD NIMOY There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to ...
ELMORE LEONARD Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chor...
LEONARD COHEN