Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I will not say anything negative about the president of the United States. I don't do that. And I don't allow my children to do that.
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Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
