Peter Greenaway Quotes
Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents - he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.
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Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.
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The beach is still a public place, and that's an amazing grace about Chicago. We have so many problems, but the water always stays. That inspires me and keeps me inspired about the city and keeps me hopeful.
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What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
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If you really watch 'The Voice' and follow Adam, he's very ADD. He's kind of one place here, and then he's over here the next minute; he's kind of all over the place. When it comes down to being very serious, and especially when we were talking about the finale song, he's actually very serious, and he's a very good listener.
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents - he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.
