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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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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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 -
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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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.
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When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.
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Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.
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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.
