Peter Arnett Quotes
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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To go back means defeat.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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Are you in my dream too?
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I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
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I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
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When we started, there were people who made fun of the music we made, danzon, cha-cha,‘That’s out of style, But still we have kept on going. It rescued all that history.
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If you had asked me growing up what a stylist does or what a magazine editor does, I would have had no clue - how do you research something like that when you are a first-born child of an immigrant who only grew up knowing doctor, engineer, and lawyer as careers?
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I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
