Peter Maurer Quotes
If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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No one person is an island.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
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And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
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In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.
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To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.
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Since trifles make the sum of human things,And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.
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The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.
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There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
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If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.
