Peter Benchley Quotes
A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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Touring is not easy, as you always have a certain yearning for home no matter how beautiful the location you are in, but I have pushed myself to the limits and am certainly more aware of myself as a result.
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The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
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A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
