Peter Maurer Quotes
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
Jacinda Barrett -
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir -
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon -
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
Nadine Velazquez
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Ad Reinhardt -
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian -
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie -
There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
Natan Sharansky
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Gary Zukav -
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
Taslima Nasrin -
Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
Earl Campbell -
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
Panayiotis Zavos -
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.
Natasha Trethewey
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato -
My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
Philip Pullman -
It's not without its flaws - it's still the South and the Bible Belt - but Atlanta is one of those cities that's really good at uniting people.
Brian Tyree Henry -
I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
Saffron Aldridge -
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson -
Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.
Peter Maurer