M. Scott Peck Quotes
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is a mosaic of visions. To lose even one piece of this mosaic is a loss for all of us.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.
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And other spirits there are standing apartUpon the forehead of the age to come;These, these will give the world another heart,And other pulses. Hear ye not the humOf mighty workings in a distant mart?Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb.
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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
