Peter Benchley Quotes
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
Quotes to Explore
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.
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Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
