Irene Peter Quotes
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.
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Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.
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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
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Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
