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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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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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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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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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself.
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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
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There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
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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.
