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Peter Maurer Quotes

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: swiss
Birth: 1956

Topics

Growth Time Wealth Same Becoming

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

Gift Choice New Resources Buy May

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant.

Jennifer Ellison

Got Weight Before Pregnant Put Bit

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

People You Know Nothing Never Going

The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!

Nation Bell Melancholy Loud Solemn

In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency.

Painting Transparency Done Colour

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

Life People Start You Late More

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Job College Thinking Real Get Kept

My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.

Work Purpose Government People Way

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

Michel Houellebecq

Life I Am Me Gift Problems Admit

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

Romantic Past Stupidity Saying You

I think I was born to be a clown. I just haven't figured out how to bring that side of myself into the world of filmmaking. It's much more comfortable for me to cry on a film set than it is to tell a joke.

Myself Me World Think Born Cry

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