Peter Maurer Quotes

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

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• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
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• I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
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• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  

  Felix Dennis
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• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
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• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

  Jacob Epstein
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• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

  

  Vijay Mallya
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• One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

  

  Harold Wilson
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• Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

  

  Lake Bell
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• I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.

  

  Tyler Hamilton
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• I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

  

  Jamie Dornan

• I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'

  

  Bradley Wiggins

• As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

  

  Max Irons
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• Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
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• We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

  

  Peter Maurer
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