Peter Beard Quotes
I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have to watch it.
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Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
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Partly as a consequence of male authority prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
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Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.
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I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
