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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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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If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live
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Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.
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But what if we are dealing with fools?
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?
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My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
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When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead
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I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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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.
