Peter Krause Quotes
I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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I really like performing for people.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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No man's credit is as good as his money.
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I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.
