Peter Maurer Quotes
You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and children.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.
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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and children.
