Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.Laurence J. Peter
Quotes to Explore
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
Odette Annable -
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath Tagore -
With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro -
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard -
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
Kat Graham -
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett -
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
Olafur Eliasson -
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg -
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
Camille Paglia
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Aaron Allston -
If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
Adam DeVine -
A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
Rand Paul -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky -
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
Narendra Modi
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
Camille Paglia -
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
Willem de Kooning -
Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
Damien Chazelle -
I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.
Kent McCord -
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter