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.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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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.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
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Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.
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Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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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.
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When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.
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I have a great affinity for senior citizens.
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Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
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I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.
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Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.
