Peter Wright Quotes
When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
Quotes to Explore
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
Tawni O'Dell
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
Taylor Schilling
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
Dan Gertler
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
Hanoi Hannah
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
Vikram Chatwal
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Malcolm de Chazal
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
Nafisa Joseph
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
J. J. Watt
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
Walter Salles
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
Bear Grylls
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
Gael Garcia Bernal
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
Victoria Justice
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
Wangari Maathai
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Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.
Sam Altman
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I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
Sally Schneider
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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.1
Leonardo da Vinci
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For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
Craig Claiborne
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You should impact the greatest amount of people that you can in your life.
Gary W. Goldstein
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I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
Becca Tobin
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
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When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
Peter Wright