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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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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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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Cut and come again.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
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This isn't just 'Scrubs' with new actors. 'Cougar Town' has a heart to it that's all its own.
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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.
