Leslie Charteris Quotes
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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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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I'm pure old-school Cardinals fan.
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We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.
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I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
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Have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be cute while placing their order through the drive-through microphone. It's as if they believe the invisible mike on the plastic menu screen is actually connected to a standup comedy stage somewhere in the recesses of the restaurant.
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Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
