Leslie Charteris Quotes
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
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I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
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My favorite drink is sake.
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What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
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I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
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Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.
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Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.
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I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.
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The only problem I've had with my Vox wah is its tendency to move around on the floor. So now it sits on a rubber mat that says in big letters, 'Kirk's Wah-Wah Rug.'
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Someone once said that Nirvana attracted everybody that had ever been through a broken home... my niche is a lot more specific: It's a lot of females, and a lot of gay guys, and a few advanced and evolved heterosexual men-not many, but there's a few out there.
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Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
