Peter Gay Quotes
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I could live naked... I love it.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.
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I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted a quick and merciful death to their victims.Tarzan had learned from his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings.
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(To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand \X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cut'.)
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When one door is closed, many more is open.
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Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.
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How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.
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For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.
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I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.
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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
