Peter Blair Henry Quotes

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Peter Blair Henry

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Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

Jerry West

MotivationalFailureFearMeTool

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Jess Walter

LoveTimePoetryMeCriticismPlay

Television has always been our No. 1 competition. But I know firsthand that you can create an experience you can't get on television. I also know that the social experience has an appeal.

Jerry Jones

ExperienceCompetitionYouCreate

I have health challenges, I have life challenges, just like everyone else.

Jennifer Holliday

LifeHealthChallengesEveryoneJust

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

LoveBeautySoonBuiltDies

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

Robert Jay Lifton

LifeThoughtKindEverydayUs

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

Michael Ian Black

MarriageRelationshipBelieveThink

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

Michael J. Saylor

ThinkMeanRightNaiveAlwaysHalf

We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.

Ruth Rendell

CharacterPeopleComplicatedPerson

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

Jay IDK

MusicTryTakeTwistFoundations

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

Jose Mujica

FightLostAgainstSmuggling

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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