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John Leonard (32)

Birth:	25th February, 1939
Death:	5th November, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Writer

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• It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

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• The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

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• He felt he didn’t want the minor to be in the position where she had to testify.

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• Cobb County is a strong part of the Atlanta metro service area.

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• The story is that one of the four trained dolphins deployed in Iraq met a wild dolphin and swam off.

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• He was one lucky guy because he got to come to work everyday and be with his family. (His daughter) managed his practice in this building that we’re in and his two sons also operated their practice out of this building.

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• This is when we lose the credibility of sport. Parents make decisions on their children, and their perception becomes that after a certain level, anybody playing sports must be drugged to be any good.

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• He just simply doesn’t want to go through the hassle any more. I don’t blame him. It would be almost unjust to go further.

  John Leonard

• Against the weight of physical evidence, half-way positions finally have nothing to support them, just like the free-fall collapse of building WTC-7.

  John Leonard

• I want to go on record as saying I would not like to see any services cut. The public needs to know that when they call the city, the police, or the fire department will be there for them.

  John Leonard

• It’s an employee with access to the water supply of 800,000 New Jersey residents. The answer can’t be, ‘We gave it the old college try and now we have to move on.’ We have someone we already know is capable of murder with access to the water supply.

  John Leonard

• This doesn’t make them a Merrill Lynch in the U.S. – the main difference is that PaineWebber doesn’t have an investment bank, … But this brings in the wealthy client.

  John Leonard

• I think it’s an excellent strategic fit, the pricing is fair, and if you look at other institutional-retail combinations like Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, the synergies are there.

  John Leonard

• These are healthy figures – the real question is sustainability, given that it has been largely based on the equity market, … I don’t think anyone is extrapolating out these first-quarter numbers.

  John Leonard

• From Credit Suisse’s point of view I don’t think there are major strategic requirements to be in the insurance business, … From their perspective, I’d see it much more as an interesting financial investment.

  John Leonard

• Parrish has all this nice stuff. Of course, they can afford newer stuff if they don’t have to pay $70,000 for a new chief.

  John Leonard

• We have fashioned a style for accommodating our guilt, for eating statistics. We haven’t yet been able, and hopefully never will be, to posture successfully in front of a real person.

  John Leonard

• I think everyone is still trying to test the waters.

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• Revenue has been under pressure as these Internet options become available.

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• May take the opportunity to bring in some new management blood.

  John Leonard