Laurence J. Peter Quotes

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Laurence J. Peter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

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I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

Joe Pantoliano

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Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

John Cleese

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When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

Robert P. McCulloch

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Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique territory, and almost everyone's first language is Spanish, not English.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

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I grew up in the projects with four older brothers.

Michael Che

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'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

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In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

Mike Judge

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Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Michael P. Anderson

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I'm a gamer. I play PlayStation all the time.

Luke Goss

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Designing new low-yield nuclear weapons for limited strikes dangerously lowers the threshold for their use.

Dianne Feinstein

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If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

Brian Lumley

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