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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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 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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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
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If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.
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A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.
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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.
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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.
