Laurence J. Peter Quotes
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.Laurence J. Peter
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
Dan Colen -
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein -
My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
Pat Summerall -
Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
Abbi Jacobson
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
Flume -
I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
Yami Gautam -
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz -
E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
J. G. Ballard -
Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
Naya Rivera -
People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
Gary Ross
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
Caitlin Flanagan -
I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.
Gabrielle Reece -
Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
Irene Rosenfeld -
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
Zoe Lofgren -
In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
Naomi Klein
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When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
Iris Chang -
People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
Geoffrey Canada -
It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.
Carolina Kostner -
There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.
Jimmy Iovine -
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter