Peter Higgs Quotes
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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'Purple Rain' is probably the best soundtrack.
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Mum and dad would drive me to the ACT Academy of Sport gym at 5 A.M., sit in the car and read a book, and then drive me to school. I appreciated it when I was younger, but I didn't really understand how much they were putting into it. Now I look at budgets of $70,000 to compete, and I think, 'Wow, they've put so much into this.'
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You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
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One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
