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Raymond Chandler Quotes

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959

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Intelligence Advertising You Find

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

Family Mother Think Guitar Play Got

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Change Failure Climate Change First

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

Family Love World Important Most

I like to come to a tournament with a specific playlist that I can listen to before going on the court. I like five or 10 minutes just for myself.

Myself I Can Listen Going Come Just

For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Kern was a great leader of that because he had the classical training of Europe. He impressed all the greatest composers, like Cole Porter and Gershwin. They couldn't believe he was writing the songs he was writing.

Leader Great Training Writing Europe

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

Hope People Me Think Try Fraud

When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.

Best Real Estate Law Growing Up Real

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Fun Sexy Dangerous Movies Always

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Anthony Braxton

Work Complex Marginalized Been Far

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

Good Great Men Philosophy Desire

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Person Serious Conservative Liberal

I suppose I've always put the career, the job and politics, all of that first.

Politics Job Career First Always

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