Winston Peters Quotes
We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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'Most of my business comes from picking up the pieces when people get things wrong.' She grinned. 'I’ll never lack for work.'
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I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.
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It's tricky to get people to go see a movie in theaters today. 'Blair Witch' is playing in D-Box Theaters with the shaking seats. Just think if they gave you a 360-degree headset. Everyone would want to go to the movie.
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I'm not trying to get approval from anyone else. No one's approval matters to me - what matters is making myself happy for myself and no one else. And if I look good to someone else, I hope they take me as inspiration or whatever they want.
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.
