Peter Maurer Quotes

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

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• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Personality
  • Social
  • Farmers

• In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Strong

• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Big

• Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • God
  • Sports
  • Face

• Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Job
  • Weird

• There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Full

• There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • May
  • True

• There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• The sea was a phenomenon I had never clapped eyes on for myself, yet it seemed, from the tales, a destination ultimate and uncompromising. The ocean’s edge, the brink of the land; the lip of Chaos.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Eyes
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • True

• I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Book
  • Nature

• Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • History

• Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.

  

  Alex Newell
  • People
  • Funny
  • Gay

• I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Positive
  • Sacrifice

• In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Career

• I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • House
  • Food
  • Mom

• What his vision of free commodity exchange omits are the constraints that governed the selection of particular commodities, and the political and military sanctions used to ensure the continuation of quiet asymmetrical exchanges that benefited one party while diminishing the assets of another.

  

  Eric Wolf
  • Exchange
  • Commodity
  • Military Action

• Men have no idea how much more difficult it is for women in the rock and roll industry, and while we are trying to give birth, breastfeed, all they do is have a good time.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

  

  Peter Maurer