Peter Bart Quotes
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.
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I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
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Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
