Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.
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Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene.
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The only frustrating thing is to have a record of 1-4 and thinking I can help contribute, ... Being injured, sitting on the sidelines you get a chance to see everything for what it is, get a little bit hungrier than you were before.
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Barack Obama's vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors, tell banks how to bank, control the medical system and take charge of all sorts of other activities for which neither he nor other politicians have any expertise or experience.
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I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
