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.
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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.
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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.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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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.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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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.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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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?'
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.
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I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
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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.
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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)
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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While they are growing up, the young need adults who can suggest principles and values to them. They feel in need of people who can teach by their example, more than by their words, to expend themselves for high ideals.
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Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.
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Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.
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One overindulges when you're younger, and you pay the price in later years. But I always realized how important it was for me to take care of myself and my voice if I was gonna have a voice when I was older.
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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.
