Peter Coyote Quotes

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Peter Coyote

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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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Money
  • Parents

• People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Design
  • Building

• 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.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• '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.

  

  Yuna
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Luxury

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Working
  • More

• 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.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Man
  • Poetry

• All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Love
  • Justice

• 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.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Love
  • Tradition
  • Admire

• Countries aren't built by boring people.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Boring
  • Countries

• 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.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Remember
  • War
  • Childhood

• God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • You
  • Said

• I'm basically nocturnal.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Basically
  • Nocturnal

• I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Guy
  • Action
  • Like

• Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Women
  • Writer
  • Him

• I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.

  

  Larry David
  • Movie

• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • World

• Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Blessing

• Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.

  

  Darren Hardy
  • Commitment
  • Mood
  • Workout

• I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing up, the problems of life. The dog looks at us and asks, 'Why am I here? What am I doing? Where am I going?' Those are the same questions we ask ourselves. People look at the paintings, and the paintings speak back to them.

  

  George Rodrigue
  • People
  • Speak
  • Problems

• If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Ocean

• Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

  

  Peter Coyote