Charles Lederer Quotes
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
Quotes to Explore
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I think I need security.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
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I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.
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Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
