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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.


Peter Shaffer

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PETER MACNICOL Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG