Peter Bichsel Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow.
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My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a very interesting and exciting approach to music, but I also saw that it was very intellectual and quite dogmatic.
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There's no map to human behaviour.
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I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
