Alan Cheuse Quotes

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

Alan Cheuse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 23, 1940 - July 31, 2015

Topics

LifeLiveReadingUpLivedUs

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

John Sulston

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Physical activity - even if you don't lose an ounce, you'll live longer, feel healthier and be less likely to get cancer, heart disease, stroke and arthritis. It's the closest thing we have to a wonder drug.

Tom Frieden

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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

Roger Daltrey

FeelOutMustSingWhoI Feel

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

Robert Wyatt

SongSorryDoneDislikeDiamondLot

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

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I'd like to do something that involves music.

Michelle Dockery

MusicSomethingLikeInvolves

T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One.

Michael Korda

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Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Louise Mensch

WritingYouSeriousBreakLawsOnce

I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

Cory Booker

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When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days.

Brian Krause

LightSleepDoorNightStandDark

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

Bobby Darin

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