Peter Coyote Quotes
I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
Quotes to Explore
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.
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An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.
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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
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Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.
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I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
