Peter Maurer Quotes
We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.
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To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
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We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions.
