Peter Gallagher Quotes
Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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I am an ordinary person.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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I have the whole costume from Playboy's sixtieth-anniversary cover shoot.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
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I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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I have an Oscar on my mantel.
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Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.
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It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
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Our duty is to be patient.
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I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
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The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.
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In America you can get away with murder, but not with sex.
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The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.
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Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.
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Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.
