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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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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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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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.
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In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
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I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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The creative project of self-government - hard and frustrating but necessary - is to produce that political commonwealth that changes over time, that can change sometimes by the minute, if circumstances intervene.
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The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.
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The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
