Peter Abrahams Quotes

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

Peter Abrahams

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• I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Eye
  • Glasses

• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Gentle
  • Haitian

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • History
  • Vision

• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Help
  • Organization

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Important
  • Working Hard

• I was always very focused on how people dressed.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • Always
  • Dressed

• People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Peace

• I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • People
  • Think
  • Like

• Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Emotional
  • Baby
  • Parenting

• For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Culture
  • Australia
  • Alaska

• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• What I found in Silicon Valley is an industry that's sort of been kept a very far remove from Washington and had an attitude of 'Just let us do our thing and make the miracles that people love around the world and leave us alone.'

  

  George Packer
  • People
  • World
  • Alone

• In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • People
  • Stones
  • Dwell

• When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Plant

• The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Real
  • Me
  • Balance

• You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • People
  • History
  • Culture