Peter Cox Quotes
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.
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I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.
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We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
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I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.
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The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
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You can make the best record in the world but if no one knows it’s there then you’ve done it as a hobby.
