Peter Hargreaves Quotes
Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I'm inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It's a close call.
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Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.
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Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see - but the catchphrases.
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I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.
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We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.
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Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.
