Peter Roskam Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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I'm very candid.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.
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There are people who've enjoyed my work in the theater, and they let me know that it was special for them. I'm not going to say, 'Well, you should have seen me as Gandalf!'
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I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.
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Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy.
