Peter McWilliams Quotes
While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
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People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.
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Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
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Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been.
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Decide who you are and what your goals entail - then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.
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While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
