Peter Coyote Quotes
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.
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I'm basically nocturnal.
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I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.
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Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
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If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
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The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.
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Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity
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Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
