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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I love sharing my life with people.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
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Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
