Peter Blair Henry Quotes
In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
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In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
