Peter De Vries Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
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I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.
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Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.
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He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.
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The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
