Pete Gallego Quotes

Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.

Pete Gallego

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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Best
  • Unexpected

• Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • History
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Voice
  • Victim
  • Oriented

• I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Believe
  • Movie

• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  

  M. Ward
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Singing

• Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Money
  • Single
  • Problems

• When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Drama

• The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Television
  • Take Advantage

• I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Life
  • Long
  • Conclusion

• I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • History
  • Player
  • Road

• Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Children
  • Day
  • Suffering

• No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Alone
  • Best
  • Memories

• Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Remember

• In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • High
  • Night
  • Travel

• A little longer, and thy Heart, Belovèd,Shall beat for ever with a Love divine;And joy so pure, so mighty, so eternal,No creature knows and lives, will then be thine.A little longer yet - and angel voicesShall ring in heavenly chant upon thine ear;Angels and Saints await thee, and God needs thee:Beloved, can we bid thee linger here!

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • God
  • Heart
  • Joy

• First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Earth

• ICE has strayed so far from its mission. It's supposed to be here to keep Americans safe, but what it's turned into is frankly a terrorist organization of its own that is terrorizing people that are coming to this country.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Country
  • Organization

• The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

  

  Arthur Henderson
  • Peace
  • Powerful
  • Deep

• So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Culture

• And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Strong
  • Ugly
  • Emotion

• Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive.

  

  Sadie Calvano
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Song

• In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
  • World
  • Together
  • Words

• Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.

  

  Pete Gallego