Laurence J. Peter Quotes
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I have three favorite cities: London, Wellington, and Los Angeles. What makes them so good? The friends who live there.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.
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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
