Laurence J. Peter Quotes
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.
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Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.
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I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.
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The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
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The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.
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If you were to draw it up, I would say the best way to win the game is to move the ball ourselves and keep them off the field.
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
