Peter Maurer Quotes

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.

Peter Maurer

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AdaptDevelopmentLong-TermLast

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Jill Clayburgh

WorkGrowing UpGrowingUpKids

Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.

Joe Wurzelbacher

BeenManyPartSelloutSinceTimes

Low interest rates benefit individuals or investors who own or want to buy assets; in that regard, they disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.

John Delaney

WantBuyOwnLowInterestAssets

My parents couldn't afford physical therapy, so they sent me to dancing school. I learned how to dance in heels, which means I can walk in heels. And I'm from Jersey, and we are really concerned with being chic, so if my friends wore heels, so did I.

Maysoon Zayid

WalkDanceSchoolParentsMeI Can

As a writer, that moment every few years when I buy a new laptop and find out that all the word processing stuff has slightly changed again (stuff I spend every working day using) is like getting into bed at night and finding some mad robot where you expected your wife to be.

John Niven

MomentDayWifeNightFindingYou

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

Angie Martinez

GoFairInterviewStillLikeHates

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

Steven Ford

TimePoliticsYouActingLikeLot

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

MenLittlePrettyWeaknessesSpiders

In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.

Robert Crumb

TimeSayingKindStageThroughJust

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

Michael Mandelbaum

GreatOnlyWarsPowersFought

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

Mohamed ElBaradei

TechnologyThinkIndiaNowThree

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

Julia Leigh

PeopleTryingSkinGoWayOut

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