Caryl Chessman (Caryl Whittier Chessman) Quotes
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
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New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.
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There are a lot of obligations when you put out a record and it does well. People want to talk to you, which is nice. So then you make sure you do that.
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I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.
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Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.
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I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
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I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.
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We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk.
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Ultimately, one of the best decisions I ever made was when I became a Buffalo Bill.
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I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.
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During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change.
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Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.
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There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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I think I was more like the black sheep, maybe, that, I was someone that you could blame on, but we were actually agreed on, that we had to stop now, because we came to a point, when it doesn't feel good anymore.
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There will always be a capital shortage from the perspective of entrepreneurs.
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If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.
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A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.
