Peter Carey Quotes
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
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I always played to win.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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My own mother is very accomplished and makes things like bahar breads as though they are going out of fashion - they are like stuffed parathas and can contain anything from potatoes to poppy seeds.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
