Hugh Leonard Quotes

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

Hugh Leonard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 9, 1926 - February 12, 2009

Topics

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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets.

Melissa Ordway

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I'm lucky.

Andrea Arnold

Lucky

In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music.

Melvyn Bragg

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I'm just happy that Jesus Christ, um, did not let me lose my teeth when I was 20 years old. 'Cause I was wondering, like, what if you kept your baby teeth until the age of 18 or 20, and then you lose 'em? That would look pretty bad.

Metta World Peace

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I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

Spencer Johnson

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Qualcomm is this big innovation house that tries to figure out how we can get as many people as possible using the cellular road map. The smartphone is just the first step along that journey.

Steve Mollenkopf

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My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Tom Hanks

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There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

Ron Chernow

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Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Ron Paul

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If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.

Russell Simmons

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I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

Minnie Driver

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