Peter Baynham Quotes
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
