Peter Blair Henry Quotes

Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Actor
  • First
  • Trained

• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Character
  • Movies

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Clothes
  • Grow

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Chanel

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Sad

• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Love
  • Way
  • For Her

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
  • More
  • Ever

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Community
  • Mask

• I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

  

  Kerry Washington

• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  

  Mark Twain
  • History

• Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Country
  • Family

• We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Good
  • Power

• I think the good part of the crisis is that finally, everybody is going to have to come to the table. That means the mayor's office, the board (of supervisors), the labor council, the chamber, small business. You end a recession healthier than you were when you went into it.

  

  Warren Hellman
  • Thinking
  • Small
  • Crisis

• Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
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