Peter Graves Quotes
People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'
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I'm very self-critical.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I love working with women.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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My best friend is my husband.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.
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People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.
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I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
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Regressing back to an infant state is nothing to be proud of. Rich Americans don't drive themselves, don't cook, don't do their own nails/hair/make-up, don't shop, and I suppose all they've got in common with rich British people is that they don't raise their own kids, either.
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People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'
