Peter William Brockbanks (Peter Banks) Quotes
There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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I was an English major in college!
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
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People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.
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The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.
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I never go wild with nails.
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Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
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There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
