Leslie Charteris Quotes
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
Halle Berry
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
Larry J. Sabato
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
S. Jay Olshansky
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
Ze Frank
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
Larry the Cable Guy
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
Rachel Boston
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
Oriana Fallaci
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
Oprah Winfrey
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I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
Victoria Clark
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
Barry Bonds
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I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
Naya Rivera
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
Victor Ponta
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She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.
David Gest
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Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.
Jennifer Grant
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Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
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Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!
Ellen DeGeneres
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For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.
Leslie Charteris