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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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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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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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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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've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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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 got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.
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I made history and therefore did not find time to write it.
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You never stop learning.
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'Learning is sacred ... it goes above boundaries.'
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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.
