Daniel Petrie Quotes
I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.
Quotes to Explore
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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I know what poverty is.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
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How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation - as an actor and as a person - perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it's cute.
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I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.
