Peter Maurer Quotes
If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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What is right is not always popular.
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I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.
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When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
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If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.
