Pete Wilson Quotes
The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.
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My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.
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Spelunking is dangerous enough without adding in anything that could be described with the word 'ravening'.
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.
