Peter Maurer Quotes
If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.Peter Maurer
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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.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
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.
Jack White The White Stripes -
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.
Ingrid Newkirk -
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.
Ted Danson -
The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
Sam Donaldson
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
Pat Robertson -
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.
Daniel Barenboim -
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
Victor Borge -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana -
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills
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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.
Park Chan-wook -
I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
Banks -
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Flannery O'Connor -
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
Gail Collins -
Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
Vijay Sethupathi -
I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
Gareth Gates
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
Karel Capek -
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
Alfred Loisy -
Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
Carine Roitfeld -
If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.
Peter Maurer