Peter Blair Henry Quotes
Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.
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I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.
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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.
