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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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 like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.
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I would have preferred to keep both brands. But in the way (that) it developed, I am very satisfied.
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I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their prizes, they have their publications, they have their work. Just because I don't know about it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. A lot of people say, "Isn't poetry in trouble today?" Or: "Nobody really reads poetry anymore." And I say, "You're crazy." There's a huge world of poetry out there. You may not know about it, but it's there.
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Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.
