Laurence J. Peter Quotes
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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Two powerful people can't be friends.
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I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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I find myself asking questions that as a filmmaker I never thought I would ask. Like I get a call from a magazine for a feature and my first question is, 'Cover or not?' Interview invite from a leading channel? I have stopped asking the topic. I'm just like 'Primetime or not?' If I am invited and put in the second row, I can be distraught for days!
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But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
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You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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If you want data to survive, carve it in rock.
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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
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My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.
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We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.
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I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
