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Elmore Leonard Quotes

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 11, 1925 - August 20, 2013

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Happy Be Happy You Bad Want Never

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.

Work Together Expectations American

We don't like it when the president doesn't even say 'Islamic terror.' It's very disturbing.

Say President Disturbing Like Even

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Chance Stand Television Censorship

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

People Me Long Alive Want Sing

I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the sense that there's some sort of shared experience. There's respect for quiet, more or less, but otherwise, there's activity.

Stephen McCauley

Work Respect Experience People Think

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school.

Music School High School Band High

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books.

Money Say Project Things Going Full

It is now clear that the president violated both his oath of office and the oath he took to tell the truth. In doing so, Bill Clinton not only committed perjury, he violated the public trust.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Truth Trust Doing Now Office Tell

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

Home Poverty Unemployment Here Mass

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Family History Responsibility Man

I just did not get on at my school. It completely failed to inspire me.

School Me Inspire Get Just Did

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Love Stars People Fall Want Movies

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