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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I like things simple.
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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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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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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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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
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I'm from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I'll keep it live in the house.
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He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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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.'
