Peter Mayer Quotes
Worthwhile books trouble our complacency, sharpening our minds and senses. Some are dangerous, and they, too, must be published.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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Gentlemen, start your egos.
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People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.
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The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
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The 'Hey now's' are delivered as people pass me. As I just get near ear range, I hear, 'Hey now!' and that's very funny.
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Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.
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And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.
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Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
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Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.
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I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I started to wonder where a lot of these samples came from. So I fell in love with Bobby Womack or Willie Hutch because I wanted to know where those samples came from.
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I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.
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Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.
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The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
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The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.
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Worthwhile books trouble our complacency, sharpening our minds and senses. Some are dangerous, and they, too, must be published.
