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.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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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.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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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.
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I don't eat red meat.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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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.
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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.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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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.
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They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
