Peter Drucker Quotes
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
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After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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I wouldn't blow my head off. I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying, 'Too many things went wrong too often.' I often think about that.
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It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.
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Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.
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The computer is a moron.
