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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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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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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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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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
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'I'm excited by the band White Stripes. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'
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The First World War had begun - imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
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When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else.
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The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
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That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.
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That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
