Peter Maurer Quotes

Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.

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• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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  • Want
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• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
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• Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

  

  Zara Phillips
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• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
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• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

  

  P. D. James
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• Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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• The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

  Vijay Kumar
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• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
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• As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.

  

  John Dykstra
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• The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

  

  Lactantius
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• Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

  

  David D. Burns
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• I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
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• Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.

  

  Peter Maurer
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