Peter Greenaway Quotes
This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The German nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in its conviction that it had been wrongfully attacked and was therefore justified in fighting. the Peace Treaty of Versailles did not seem to be for the purpose of restoring peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred.
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This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.
