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.Peter Carey
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I always played to win.
Hansie Cronje -
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.
Dan Ariely -
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
Barry Ritholtz -
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz -
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
Vince Vaughn -
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.
Hannah Arendt
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Saint Bernard -
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
Natalie Dormer -
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
Carl Lewis -
When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
R. Kelly -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer
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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.
Ted Koppel -
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.
Qandeel Baloch -
We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Politics is a good thing!
Larry J. Sabato -
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.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
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I was a very picky eater.
Alice Waters -
He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very hard – a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt.
John Aubrey -
There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.
Jakob Dylan -
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.
Gerald Nicosia -
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.
Peter Carey