Peter Greenaway Quotes
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut like Sally Ride, or a zoologist like Jane Goodall. Instead, they look to someone like Madonna.
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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
