Peter Greenaway Quotes
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.
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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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When you’re only doing it for one play and you’re just not where you’re supposed to be, and freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, boy are you going to clean somebody’s clock for that one play.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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So you say there are spaces, opening wide?Oh believe me, there's day longer than nights.And you could be happy, if only you'd try.But you don't try. No you don't try.
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Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.
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'We must ask Kito to come over.'
