Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I need instant gratification.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
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It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
