Peter Abrahams Quotes
To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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Power to the peaceful.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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Fate is written in the face.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.
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Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.
