Peter Ackroyd Quotes
As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
Peter Ackroyd
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
Adam Davidson
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
Raf Simons
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
Lajos Kossuth
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Caitlyn Jenner
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
Gary Becker
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
Taraji P. Henson
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl Nightingale
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. Edwards Deming
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King
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You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
Matt Ryan
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The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.
Bernard Berenson
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Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.
Britt Ekland
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Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
Zeno of Citium
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In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.
Taika Waititi
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As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
Peter Ackroyd
