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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Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
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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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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.
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Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
