Peter De Vries Quotes
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
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Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.
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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
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We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
