Peter Bart Quotes
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Nationalization, unmentionable only yesterday, has entered common usage not least because an even scarier word - depression - is next on America's list to avoid.
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Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!
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Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.
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I am married to work.
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I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
