Peter Greenaway Quotes
If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
Quotes to Explore
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
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It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
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Sex is energy.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
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To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.
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faith and reason 'mutually support each other'; each influences the other, as they offer to each other a purifying critique and a stimulus to pursue the search for deeper understanding
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I just pick it up and throw it. He hit it. They scored. We didn't. That's it. It's over. It's history. OK?.
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If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
