Peter Hall Quotes
We find in most of Western countries slow economic growth, which means that jobs are being created slowly and that generous social benefits systems developed in the 1960s and 1970s are often unaffordable. So in one way or another, all of these countries face this problem.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
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If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.
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I always had a thing for writing. Even when I was in school, I was always good at writing.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
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You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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We find in most of Western countries slow economic growth, which means that jobs are being created slowly and that generous social benefits systems developed in the 1960s and 1970s are often unaffordable. So in one way or another, all of these countries face this problem.
