Peter Middlebrook Quotes
The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'
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In New Bethel, we take the word serious. We whip whores, we hang thieves, and we burn sorcerers.
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In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money-not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' the instructor replied, 'it's not relevant to men.'
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If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
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One of the things, none of the distributions have ever done right is application packaging ... making binaries for linux desktop applications is a major fucking pain in the ass.
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
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The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.
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Iimitate everyone except myself.
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He has embarrassed the government. By continuing as minister without portfolio he has earned himself a price for silence.
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I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
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The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.
