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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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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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.
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Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.
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I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.
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Everybody on my team - I couldn't do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you're successful is you hire really successful people.
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I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.
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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
