Charles E. Leiserson (Charles Eric Leiserson) Quotes
We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
Charles E. Leiserson
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
Kajol
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
Wayne Rooney
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
J. G. Ballard
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
Victoria Pendleton
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
Laura Wade
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
Nawal El Saadawi
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
Mal Peet
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
Garrett Neff
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I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
Eddie Marsan
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Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
Liang Chow
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A lot of shows, like 'Cupid,' that I loved with all my heart, it shouldn't have been canceled.
Paula Marshall
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
William Allen White
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Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path of the master himself?
Leon Kass
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There's no Toyota of America engineering group, there's no Volkswagen or Audi that engineers unique cars for the United States. All we're doing is we're learning how to do what everybody else does.
Bob Lutz
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I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
John Darnielle
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We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
Charles E. Leiserson
