Peter Ackroyd Quotes
As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.
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I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
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The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
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"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."
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In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
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As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
