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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The linguistic entity is not accurately defined until it is delimited, i.e. separated from everything that surrounds it on the phonic chain. These delimited entities or units stand in opposition to each other in the mechanism of language.
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Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
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Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
