Peter Daniell Doherty Quotes
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You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.
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True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.
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Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
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Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
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If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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Riots are the voices of the unheard.
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It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.
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Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
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You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?
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From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
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I’m vain because I’m imperfect.
