Peter Maurer Quotes
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
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I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
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The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.
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Even in war, everyone deserves to be treated humanely.
