Leon Quotes

• If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

  Eric Weiner

  Coffee, Artist, Vienna

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

  C. Wright Mills

  Democracy, Unions, Trotsky

  "C. Wright Mills: The Last Six Months". Saul Landau, Ramparts Magazine (pp. 49-50), August 1965.

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• My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

  Louis Prima

  Brother, School, Boys

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• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. Well, guess what? The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free! This brother was a conquistador who came with Ponce de Leon. He was looking for the Fountain of Youth just like the white people were.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Brother, Florida, Names

  "Gates Unlocked!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• [Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

  Leon Trotsky

  Ideas, Revolution, Characteristics

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Opening Ceremony, Mary, Carols

  "Do You Sometimes Mispronounce Designer Names? This TV Star Does and Totally Owns It". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2014.

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• This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

  Louie Bellson

  Country, School, Band

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• Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  America, World, Columbus

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.8, 谷月社

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• My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family.

  Lucille Kallen

  Brother, Father, Pride

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• My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

  Andrej Pejic

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Writing

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• I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Kings, Party

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• I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two characters [Nikola Tesla and Leon Teremin] who were brought together. That made it fascinating to me. And especially the language they made up, that Klaatu speaks. Because it has a Latin word order. It's like medieval Latin, but it had some Navajo phonemes in it and that kind of stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Latin, Character, Order

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said 'okay, call it the God particle', and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading.

  Peter Higgs

  Jobs, Thinking, Editors

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• A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.

  Brian Greene

  Dream, Light, Age

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• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Havens

  "Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis Interview THE HANGOVER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 3, 2009.

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• The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Bob, Defense, Campaigns

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• Animals are a huge part of my life, so yes, if you are going to be a part of my life, you would need to have the same love for animals. Howard is so great in that aspect and he truly is my partner. We have six resident cats - Walter, Apple, Leon Bear, Charlie Boy, Bella, and Yoda-and we have fostered over fifty kittens in the last year. He even lets the kittens play in his hair! They love it!

  Beth Ostrosky Stern

  Cat, Animal, Boys

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• My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

  Hillary Scott

  Crush, Kings, Singers

  "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.

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• I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?" "Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously want a slushie." I tried a tentative smile. I definitely liked him now. "I haven't had one in ages. Maybe the guys outside—the double blonds—would want one, too?" For some reason Leon found that utterly fricking hysterical. He snorted and chuckled all the way through Housewares to the Health and Beauty section, and even Benjamin unbent enough to grin.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Guy, Age, Way

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• The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.

  Paul Reiser

  Xbox, Son, Years

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• Ponce de Leon, who said when he discovered the Fountain of Youth, Where the hell are the paper cups? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Paper, Dinner, Cups

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• I hope that when girls see my clothes, my shoes, or my outrageous jewelry collection, they feel the thrill of wanting more for themselves too. I love what my friend Andre Leon Talley said: "If you are successful, people want to see it. They want to share in your dream".

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Girl, Dream, Successful

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?' 'Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world.

  China Mieville

  Hate, Ghetto, Self

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• Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

  Robert Cormier

  Running, Brother, Heart

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.22, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

  Steve Hamilton

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

  Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.119, Macmillan

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