They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You're not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you're good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops.


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Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS
Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS
The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER
Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM
Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS
When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK
For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI
Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER
About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI
Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV
I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN
What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER
Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE
The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK
Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV