Peter Beard Quotes
I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
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People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.
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I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.
