Peter Mayle Quotes
I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
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We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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When I got to MIT, I discovered a really interesting Master's program called the Science and Technology and Policy Program - it taught people with a background in STEM how to think about science and tech from a policy perspective. It was a great way to understand how to communicate science to a policymaker or a layperson.
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O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.
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I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
