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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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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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
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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.
