Peter Beard Quotes
We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
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Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates.... It is better suited to pulling things down than to building them up, and better at discovering what things are not, than what they are.
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After doing some research with my agent, we found out Klipsch was an official Colts partner, and they were based in Indianapolis, which only added to my esteem for the company. I also have a passion for design and technology that developed while I was at Stanford and appreciate the quality of Klipsch's speakers and headphones.
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I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.
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I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.
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We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.
