Peter Coyote Quotes

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

Peter Coyote

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• Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Political
  • Professional

• I am not irresponsible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Irresponsible

• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Home

• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Today
  • Innovation
  • Google

• The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Peace
  • Meaning
  • Socialism

• I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Family
  • Why

• I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.

  

  Sally Watson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Breakfast

• I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Laughter

• I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • City
  • Excellence

• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Love
  • Job
  • Parents

• As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

  

  Rafe Spall
  • God
  • Me
  • Cool

• I've been on my grind to be the best player I can.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Best
  • Player
  • I Can

• I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Character
  • Think
  • Gay

• Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sometimes

• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Want
  • Challenges

• It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Remember
  • Computer
  • Fabulous

• There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

  

  Thomas More
  • Dying
  • Might
  • Punishment

• I can say, out of my whole life, my dad left the situation at an early age for me; he left. But my mum turned her back on me.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Life
  • Age
  • Dad

• This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

  

  Leon Jouhaux
  • Progress

• Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

  

  Peter Coyote