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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I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so I simply try to tell what happened, or what I imagine happened. I also think it helps to let the reader fill in a lot of the blanks. Melodrama is patronizing. With a straightforward statement, readers can figure out for themselves what's going on.
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All, all for immortality,Love like the light silently wrapping all.
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Unemployment in Florida peaked at 11.2 percent in 2009, higher than the national average, and the state was a center for home foreclosures.
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I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
