Peter Greenaway Quotes
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.
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I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
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'Braveheart' is way up there for me.
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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
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I really like Halal food.
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I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.
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I really can't tell you the feeling I feel, like, being on stage: it's such a high; it's like running a marathon. You just can't get that feeling anywhere else.
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My husband is Australian, and my family is scattered around the U.K. and France mostly, but we try to get a big group together for the holidays.
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I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
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Usually, the Olympics is a bit stronger competition.
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For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
