Pete Gallego Quotes
It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
