Peter Brimelow Quotes

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Peter Brimelow

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• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

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• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

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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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• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

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• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

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• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  

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• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

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• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  

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• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

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• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

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• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

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• My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

  

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• I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Education
  • Productivity