Peter V. Brett Quotes
I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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I'm as honest as I can be.
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest; Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk. Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament; Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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There is a great market for cars in the United States - as Honda and Toyota have proven.
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I wanted to bring something to 'Celebrity Apprentice' to let America know that you don't have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to a challenge.
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It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
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I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.
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Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'
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I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.
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I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.
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I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.
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What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
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I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.
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At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
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I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.
