Peter Benchley Quotes
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.Peter Benchley
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler -
Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
Laura Bush -
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
Sam Smith -
Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti -
I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
Halston Sage -
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
Ralph Adams Cram
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
Jack Nicklaus -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure -
I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
Oksana Baiul -
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
Tammy Bruce -
One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
Sam Smith
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
Harry Belafonte -
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
Pat Conroy -
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
Quincy Jones -
I've never worried about how long the song is.
Adam Jones -
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
And I sing and sing of awful thingsThe pleasure that my sadness brings.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
Anthony Browne -
The idea that somewhere in the desert far away you have a CO2 absorber that's removing the CO2 from the air is an attractive one. It's a costly process that many will say is too expensive, but so are fuel cells in cars. It's a matter of political will to move this forward.
Klaus Lackner -
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
Peter Benchley