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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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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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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TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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I grew up playing sports, and my dad was always really into that, very passionate about that, as was I, but even my passion for music far outweighs what it was for sports. That's hard for me to believe. And it's hard for me to believe that my parents' passion for music far outweighs their passion for sports, but it does.
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Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
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Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.
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Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.
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More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy.
