Mike Peters Quotes
In the concerts I not only played my own songs, but played songs by Dave Sharp. That's my way of keeping the true spirit of the Alarm alive.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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In the family, writing wasn't anything anyone understood - being a writer in the real world? How could it be? We didn't have those mirrors.
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There's bigger threats in my neighborhood than LeBron James, so I have no fear whatsoever of LeBron.
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For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor;So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed;And yet anon repairs his drooping head,And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled oreFlames in the forehead of the morning sky.So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,Through the dear might of him that walked the waves.
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If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
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I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.
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I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.
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Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.
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One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
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There's no substitute for the power of a personal story. The true stories of God redeeming a broken life shoot like arrows straight to our hearts and remind us that God wants to do the same life changing work in our lives. I love how one story can impact another story, causing a ripple effect of change if we let it.
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In the concerts I not only played my own songs, but played songs by Dave Sharp. That's my way of keeping the true spirit of the Alarm alive.
