Peter Beard Quotes
I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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I'm not a negative person.
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I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
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My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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The difference between us is that we're using missile defense to protect our civilians and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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All those angry, uneducated Trump supporters seemed to understand what his policies were. They figured it out by listening to him. It was only fair. No one listened to Trump, except the voters; and no one listened to the voters, except Trump.
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Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
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A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.
