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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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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Greed puts out the sun.
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
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I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
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I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.
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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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I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.
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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.
