Peter Hook Quotes
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)
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I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.
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Acting is not what I do. It's what I am. It's my permanent, built-in cathedral.
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I'm usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.
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Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.
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Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are the newest new thing since the arrival of the movies just over a century ago.
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I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.
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I am not a robot; I am a member of a family - my commitment to them comes over and above my commitment to cycling.
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Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
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I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.
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Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.
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What I've learned late in my career is, regardless of whether you play well or not, if the team doesn't win, it's all for nothing.
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People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.
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Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.
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Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.
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Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
