Peter B. Lewis Quotes
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.
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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.
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I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
