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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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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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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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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I play on a soccer team.
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To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
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A lot of shows, like 'Cupid,' that I loved with all my heart, it shouldn't have been canceled.
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One of my style commandments is to always have beautifully radiant skin.
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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
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Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I wish we could just pick up and do 'Kenan & Kel: The Grown-Up Years,' getting everyone back working together. I feel like it would be an awesome moment for everybody.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.
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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.
