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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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imaginations.
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It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
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It is false to say President Bush presided over a 'jobless recovery.' His trade deficits have created many millions of jobs in China.
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It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
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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?
