Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
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I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
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I would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved.
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
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If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.
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I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
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But you can't really know your audiences so well.
