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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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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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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I'm not a hat person. I really don't like wearing things on my head.
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I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.
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For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. ... Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
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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.
