Leslie Charteris Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I would love to be a role model.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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There’s already an evolution taking place inside of Cuba, a generational change. Many suggested that I come here and ask the people of Cuba to tear something down - but I’m appealing to the young people of Cuba who will lift something up, build something new.
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How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?
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If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
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We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
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I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.
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About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
