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 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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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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I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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I have very few friends and don't talk much.
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It was a pretty awesome fight, and I don't think that any normal team can do that. It takes a team like what we've got.
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Once my pilot and I push and jump into the sled, I hold on for dear life in the back while she skillfully and hopefully quickly navigates the two of us down a mile of icy, often bumpy, sharp right and left turns. I then pull the brakes at the end.
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I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
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The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.
