Peter Greenaway Quotes
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
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You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.
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The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
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I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
