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.Peter Maurer
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Olivia Wilde -
Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
Tariq Ali -
I keep in touch with what's real.
Sam Claflin -
The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry -
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.
Mae Jemison -
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.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
Idi Amin -
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.
Tammy Duckworth -
I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
Octavia Spencer -
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.
Wayne Dyer -
'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.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
Adam Hochschild
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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.
Walter Savage Landor -
The mind is the reality. You are what you think.
Alfred Bester -
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Duke Ellington -
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!
Alfred Noyes -
There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
Hannah Bronfman -
It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.
Lindy Booth
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The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.
Andy Dunn -
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
John Mahoney -
I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.
Kurt Busch -
In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.
Bruce Rauner -
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.
Peter Maurer