Peter Hall Quotes
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
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At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
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My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
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By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.
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Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn't good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.
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The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
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I've realised I can be happy.
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The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.
