M. Scott Peck Quotes
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.
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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.
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I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.
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Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
