Peter B. Lewis Quotes
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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He suspected the troops felt closer to somebody who spoke a different language but asked them questions than they did to somebody who shared their language and only ever used it to give orders.
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Me a playboy?! You must be joking. But playing something like Robert Redford's role in Indecent Proposal would be a pleasant surprise.
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You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.
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If the artist isn't having a great day or finds it all boring, my role becomes that of a coach. Getting the very best out of the artist. Helping them perform at their very best when it's game time. One way to get them there is to bring them out of their comfort zones.
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To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
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There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.
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I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
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I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians.
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Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
