Peter Fonda Quotes
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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I can walk down the street and nobody knows who I am.
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The lead character in 'Adaptation' is pretty much me but with more talent. Every time I watch 'Adaptation,' I feel very emotional because it makes me be kinder to myself and see the human situation a little more clearly.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
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It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.
