Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.
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In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
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Knowing someone else is going through the bizarreness of pregnancy with you makes it feel a little less impossible.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I want to be me, I can only be me. Whatever it is, I want to understand it by seeing it with my own eyes, by hearing it with my own ears.
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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
