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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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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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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Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
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What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.
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Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.
