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They made him step on the scale three to five times a day, every time he walked by, coach would make him step up on the scale, and Peter would hang his head and get up on the scale. We were both throwing up in the morning from anxiety -- me from my knee and him because of the weight issue.

Simon Cvijanovic

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think the character will remain around, but, at one point, Peter Parker will return.

Miles Morales

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We won't just give carte blanche to Peter.

Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Staff need to disclose personal donations to a charitable organization to us before covering a story related to that organization, he had not disclosed the Foundation donations to us before he interviewed Peter Schweizer.

Julie Townsend

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It threatens American personnel and facilities located in the region and is responsible for the deaths of U.S. citizens James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Abdul-Rahman Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller, if left unchecked, ISIL will pose a threat beyond the Middle East, including to the United States homeland.

President Obama on Wednesday

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Peter is a very competent chief executive and he is running the bank.

Karen Fawcett

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was pretty difficult to take it in, that this was really going to happen, but then a couple of hours later we got a call from Peter Greste to say that Peter Greste in the airport and about to hop onto the plane.

Lois Greste

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I remember coming out and guys telling me you're going to make 80 percent of your money in 20 percent of your starts, the idea was basically you're going to get hot a couple of times, and that's what you wait for. And it makes sense. You're going to get hot and then peter off a little bit.

Matt Kuchar

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There are more avenues, more options for Peter Greste, his family and his legal team to pursue.

Julie Bishop

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Egyptian president has said a few days after he was convicted that he wouldn't be pardoning Peter until the legal processes have been finalised.

Peter Greste

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I urged (the Egyptian foreign minister) to consider releasing Peter Greste for Christmas, we wanted him out and home as soon as possible, we've got our fingers crossed, we don't know whether we have secured this yet.

Julie Bishop

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

She is like one of those kids that never wanted to grow up, i would tell her, 'You have that child in you like Peter Pan.'.

Dulce Mojarro

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I like him. He's very sad about his hand. There is a crocodile chasing him and he is lonely, I think, he wants vengeance and he also wants a mother. He is very upset Peter Pan has found a mother and he wants to take her away and be his mother. So, he's a little sad.

Christopher Walken

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Peter’s specialty is usually sort of the puzzle solving, the putting the pieces together that an FBI agent would be good at. And Neal, I always look at Neal as somebody who can sort of look at the problem from outside the box and approach it in a way that most people wouldn’t think to. Mozzie adds his own expertise, which usually that sort of that street level guy who knows the way that criminals do it. And Elizabeth has a certain amount of emotional intelligence that we try to play off of. She’s going to see things from a human perspective that a lot of times Peter won’t see or Neal won’t see.

Jeff Eastin

added by anonymous
9 years ago

‘I saw Anne Frank and Peter van Pels in Westerbork. They were always together. (…) In Westerbork Anne was lovely, so radiant that her beauty flowed over into Peter. (…) Perhaps it’s not the right expression to say that her eyes were radiant. But they had a glow, if you know what I mean. And her movements, her looks, had such a lilt to them that I often asked myself: Can she possibly be happy? She was happy in Westerbork, though that seems almost incredible.’

Rosa de Winter-Levy

added by anonymous
9 years ago

„I often saw Peter. It visited his aunt Henny and its Grandpa, which had likewise fled from Osnabrück and in Amsterdam lived now. It was shyly, very shy a very nice boy, and. He came often to Henny, if she had to repair something, Tischlerarbeiten or in such a way, such a thing made he for her. It was very quiet. “

Bertel Hess

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter’s father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.

Otto Frank

added by anonymous
10 years ago

‘It was about half past ten. I was upstairs in the van Pels’s part of the house, in Peter’s room, doing schoolwork with him. Suddenly someone came running up the stairs. Then the door flew open and a man stood before us holding his pistol aimed at my chest. Downstairs all the others were already assembled. My wife and the children and the van Pels family were standing there with raised hands. Then Fritz Pfeffer came in, followed by another stranger. The policemen ordered us to hand over our valuables. Silberbauer took Anne’s briefcase. He shook everything out, dumping the contents on the floor, so that Anne’s papers and notebooks and loose sheets lay scattered all over the floorboards.’

Otto Frank

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Peter acted like a son to help me. Every day he brought me extra food. . . He never could stay long. We never discussed serious matters and he never spoke about Anne. I did not have the impression that he matured much.’

Otto Frank

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Peter was lucky to get a job at the post office in the camp which was established for the SS soldiers and the non-Jewish prisoners who got mail and parcels.’

Otto Frank

added by anonymous
10 years ago

‘With this letter, dear Mr Frank, I would like to ask you if it is not a good idea to occasionally focus our attention on brave Peter. How a boy of fifteen held out in the concentration camp, as you yourself told me, how he did his best for other people, and so on. Of course the marvellous, intelligent Anne deserves all the attention, but the boy had such a close bond with her, and he certainly meant a great deal to her – why not some praise for him now and then? This is no more than an idea, but I think all too often of all the heroes who were not lucky enough From the archives of the Anne Frank Houseto have kept diaries.’

Greta Goldsmith

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Peter exercised a zeal which was unregulated by knowledge

A. W. Pink

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Ring Announcer What's your name kid Peter The Human Spider. Ring Announcer That's it The Human Spider That's the best you've got Peter Yeah. Ring Announcer Well that sucks.

Spider-Man

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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