Peter Stuyvesant Quotes
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name.
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The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
