Peter Fonda Quotes
Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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If people really saw what was happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, then they might be marching in the streets to end wars. But you know, I think that no one ever sees because we're not allowed to see, and we're not allowed to publish what we do see. So it's quite difficult.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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I've always wanted to perform and act my whole life and to understand people more, so that's the only reason I've got to work with the people I've worked with.
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Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
