Peter Maurer Quotes
The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
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Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.
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Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
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Peace is far more preferable to war.… I believe that peace is the only path to true security. … And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations.
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The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.
