Peter Garrett Quotes
Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.
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It is important for me to remember that time learning anything substantial, even if it's not my favourite topic, is time well used.
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Sometimes in Portland I'm like, 'Who is funding this city?' It's doing great - there's all these new shops; there's a synthesizer store. Where is this coming from?
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I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.
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Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
