Peter Abrahams Quotes
All my life had been dominated by a sign, often invisible but no less real for that, which said: 'Reserved for Europeans Only.'
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
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No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.
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I do love the music aspect of the Internet. The Internet made me.
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The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.
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In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.
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The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
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All my life had been dominated by a sign, often invisible but no less real for that, which said: 'Reserved for Europeans Only.'
