Peter Coyote Quotes
My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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I had to struggle with the language. I can understand Hindi now, but I still can't communicate. And things get lost in translation; I feel rejected all the time.
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The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.
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Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
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Sentimus experimurque, nos aeternos esse.
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.
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I apologize in my capacity as leader of the NP to the millions who suffered wrenching disruption of forced removals; who suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offences; who over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of racial discrimination.
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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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The vast majority of individuals with Asperger Syndrome need help - without that help they won't be able to do very well. The individuals that I know have to overcome a great deal of difficulty to maximize their potential and get the things in life they deserve.
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I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.
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Global warming science is uneven and evolving.
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My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
