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.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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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.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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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.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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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.
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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.
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I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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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.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.
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Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
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I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.
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Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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The levelling of inflexion and of wordplay became part of the program of applied knowledge in the seventeenth century. (p. 265)
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Just because we want our favorite team to win does not mean there's any lack of toughness when a player chooses family first.
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I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.
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The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.
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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.
