Peter Mayle Quotes
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?
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Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
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It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.
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The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.
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Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.
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I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.
