Peter Maurer Quotes
Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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The mind is the reality. You are what you think.
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By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
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They wouldn't mourn for Peterkin, merry little Peterkin. Put away your muskets, lay aside the drum, Hang it by the wooden sword we made for little Peterkin!
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There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
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Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it's not just what I do in the gym but it's also an accepted lifestyle.
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People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
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The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.
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Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.
