Peter Hobson Quotes
There's only one city in the world that has this problem this weekend. What a problem to have. We're blessed.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.
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The old joke about the two main Soviet papers, Pravda ('Truth') and Izvestia ('News'), was 'There’s no news in the Truth and no truth in the News!'
Garry Kasparov -
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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There's only one city in the world that has this problem this weekend. What a problem to have. We're blessed.
