Peter Maurer Quotes
While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.
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Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.
