Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

But you can't really know your audiences so well.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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• The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Best
  • Look
  • Makeup

• 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.

  

  Iman
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Wise

• 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.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Men
  • Today
  • Doubt

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Wise
  • Countries

• We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • May
  • Financial
  • Management

• Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Best
  • Negative

• 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.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • World
  • Live
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Heart
  • Doing
  • Choice

• A library implies an act of faith.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Faith
  • Library
  • Act

• Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Never
  • Should

• There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Natural

• I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Reality
  • My Life

• I would not be surprised if there were another cause of AIDS and even that HIV is not involved.

  

  Walter Gilbert

• 'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Great
  • True
  • Reality

• It's a lot of fun coming out for a practice round and having the crowd behind you and cheering you on (a few) days before the event.

  

  Annika Sorenstam
  • Crowd
  • Round
  • Cheering

• My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Time
  • Environment

• But at the bottom in surrender so complete there is no coherent thought, no real pain, no feeling, just exhaustion, just waiting, there is something else. Warmth/light/softness. Acceptance, by me, of me. Rest. After a while, some strength. Enough, for now.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Pain
  • Acceptance
  • Surrender

• We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

  

  Clara Jeffery
  • Art
  • Struggle
  • Figures

• I meditate - very pretentious - and I try to read as much as I can and swim at the Y.

  

  Lucas Hedges

• But you can't really know your audiences so well.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies