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Tell them I'm not old enough,
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[Of course,] Pagan Babies ... Detroit, for some reason, is not big on good Italian restaurants.
ELMORE LEONARD
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
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I leave out the parts that people skip.
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Leave out the parts everyone skips.
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Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Su...
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To cast Mr. Spock, I made a phone call to Leonard, and he came in. That was it.
GENE RODDENBERRY
If I was a boxer, I would bounce those things like Sugar Ray Leonard!
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Detective Leonard W. Briscoe
JERRY ORBACH
I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal mean...
M. WARD
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I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.
NONITO DONAIRE
There is no decent place to stand in a massacre.
BLAKE CROUCH
My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night penci...
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I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was
MATTHEW QUICK
Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were s...
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We're just very happy, Mrs. Leonard.
SALLY DOYLE
They're doing a great job of sharing right now. Elmore and Majors have different styles and differen...
DAVE VESTAL
We're fighting for a playoff spot. We're fighting to keep a winning season. We've had seven consecut...
HUGH FOUNTAIN
The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
There's always hope there's another Leonard Bernstein.
CAROL ROBINSON
Fort Leonard Wood really keeps us hopping.
DONNA HUDSON
It's early. We've still got Atlantic and Leonard, so that could change pretty quick.
TERRY GOUGH
You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster...
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I just thought it was a little nerves from the start; a lot of these guys have never raced in a stad...
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Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
DICK SCHAAP
He's in the mould of (retired Blue Bulls No 8) Anton Leonard.
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There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, whi...
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It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.
- Leonard
MORGAN MATSON
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
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Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also...
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The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
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When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)
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Bod was obedient but curious.
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Here is a small fact: You are going to die"
"does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I...
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An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
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Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
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MAX VANDENBURG "THE BOOK THIEF"
Oh, come on, Arthur."
"I don't want to hear it, Andy."
"Jesus Christ"
"He doesn't wan...
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Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say s...
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(Leonard) pitched great. He had his usual stuff. He dominated and kept them off the scoreboard.
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It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intellig...
LEONARD SUSSKIND
'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our...
LEONARD MLODINOW
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo...
LEONARD NIMOY
Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land busines...
LEONARD BOSWELL
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des...
LEONARD COHEN
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when t...
LEONARD COHEN
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN
I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're ...
LEONARD COHEN
Music is the emotional life of most people.
LEONARD COHEN
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
JOHN LEONARD
As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepa...
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
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
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
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chor...
LEONARD COHEN
We're the underdogs and that's a good position to be in.
AMY LEONARD
They had a lot of confidence coming in and they came in on a streak. A lot of people didn't give us ...
AMY LEONARD
We couldn't really stop Clemens. Jessica was tough and you had two good teams playing and one had to...
AMY LEONARD
She spent a lot of her own time working individually on her skills, her footwork, getting to the bas...
AMY LEONARD