Peleg Top Quotes
We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.
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The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
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People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
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Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.
