Leonard Peltier Quotes

In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

Leonard Peltier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
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  • Birth: September 12, 1944

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YouDaysGotJustStillMost

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

Joe Lieberman

SupportDevelopmentNationObligation

It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise.

Jeremih

PeopleMeNameEasyWrongSometimes

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

John Collison

TimeSchoolCuriousPeopleMeThink

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

MyselfWritingEndingVoiceStory

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

FailureBusinessYouMeanJust

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

John Ratzenberger

CharacterSomeoneCliffUpStarted

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Stendhal

GreatStyleSimpleMindsGreat Minds

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

Mary Hunter Austin

GodWorldAirOne ThingAnywhere

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.

Michael Sheen

ChangeYouLookMiraclesJesus

That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.

Liz Phair

MusicMeWinYouHousePlay

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Christopher Lasch

BetterInformationDebateSeen

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft

FailureGreatManWeaknessCredit

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