Leslie Charteris Quotes
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
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My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
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At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.
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The fact of the matter is that the true hits of AOL have always been its easy-to-use services, such as AIM, email, and Buddy Lists.
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I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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Against this current conception of religion the prophets insisted on a right life as the true worship of God. Morality to them was not merely a prerequisite of effective ceremonial worship. They brushed sacrificial ritual aside altogether as trifling compared with righteousness, nay, as a harmful substitute and a hindrance for ethical religion.
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A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
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Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
