Peter York Quotes
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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(Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'
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If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.
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Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.
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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
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I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.
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When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.
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I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.
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Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
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America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
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I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.
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Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
