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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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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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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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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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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Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
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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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I know from experience it's very hard to get access to a prison to take pictures.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.
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Life is like that, don’t you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them.
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My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
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'We must ask Kito to come over.'
