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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Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
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I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
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Be aware of textural elements throughout a party, like silverware, stemware, and linens. But the biggest element is metaphorical: it's your own touch. How are you making people feel?
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'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.
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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
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Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
