Peter Cox Quotes
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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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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I sent for you, Mansus, because I suffer from the illusion that you have more brains than most of the people in my department, and that's not saying much.
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I grew up listening to Puerto Rican music like everybody else. But when I listened to Charlie Parker for the first time, I said, 'How does this guy play so fast?'
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All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
