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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Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I have a lot of memos in my phone of songs; I've had dreams about a melody. It's always melody first as far as when stuff like that happens - I find that my melodic sense is my strongest asset as a songwriter.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
