Mal Peet Quotes

The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

Mal Peet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1947 - March 2, 2015

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BetterNothingHumanIdleNeedVery

I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

Jimmy Wales

GoodCompanyRealAdministrative

When we go city by city, country by country, the majority of our hosts, our owners, are simply renting out their spare bedroom.

Joe Gebbia

CityCountryGoBedroomOutSimply

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

Jello Biafra

ManMeEnvironmentalWindThinkYou

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

John Lasseter

MeStoryShortDirectorShort Films

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

WordsYouGoKnowRealSee

I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.

John Schneider

PeopleBelieveI BelieveWorstEven

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

John Pomfret

WarCrimeHadHorrendousUncovered

Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, 'Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10.' That's not what detoxification is about.

Tracy Anderson

WomenLostFastingJuiceSeeI See

I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers - doesn't matter if its something my wife hates.

Ron White

WifeI CanNewMatterWriteJoke

There are very few things that 13 million people tune in to witness, so television is a really relevant and powerful thing.

Luke Macfarlane

PeoplePowerfulTelevisionThings

Ziggler is one of those guys who don't get all of the credit he deserves for being so good consistently for so long.

Dean Ambrose

GoodCreditLongBeingGetWho

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

Chris Gethard

LifeStruggleSayingStrongThink

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