Peter Maurer Quotes
You treat detainees humanely because you know the other side will also treat detainees humanely.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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I'm very open-minded.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
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It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
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I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.
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Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
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I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
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I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
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You treat detainees humanely because you know the other side will also treat detainees humanely.
