Peter Maurer Quotes
Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.
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What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.
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It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!
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But it seemed that for every competent man or woman there was an incompetent man above. It was the law of trickle-up irresponsibility. And the competent man and woman spent so much time manipulating the incompetent men they had neither the time nor the motivation to do their jobs properly.
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Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.
