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Peter Maurer Quotes

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: swiss
Birth: 1956

Topics

Perspective Action Long-Term Option

I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

Love Me Hometown Wall Philadelphia

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

Government President Created Private

The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.

Beauty Business Focus Internet You

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Art Money Famous Want Being Famous

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Laughter Tears Drama Know Try Own

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

Janice Dickinson

Disturbing Extreme Idea Makeover

I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.

Jonathan Krisel

I Am Comedy Movies Where British

One Direction are super cool.

Dionne Bromfield

Cool Direction Super

When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That's my world.

Home Business Children Wife World

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

Myself Never Write Well Would Exile

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

Douglas Alexander

Age Generation Events Conscience

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Chauncey Wright

Science Experience Research Direction

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