Peter York Quotes
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.Peter York
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins -
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell -
I don't eat red meat.
Waka Flocka Flame -
I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
Yara Shahidi
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
Salar Kamangar -
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa -
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
Daisy Ridley -
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma -
You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.
Rachel Johnson
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
Maeve Binchy -
I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
Sam Heughan -
The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Cossman -
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
Adam Cohen -
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia -
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
Tadashi Yanai -
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.
Confucius -
Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
Gautama Buddha -
One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
Peter York