Peter James Quotes
My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
Quotes to Explore
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
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I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.
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Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.
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I used to a play a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons, and that was about levels of experience; as you gained experience, you were able to deal with much greater and far more kind of global creatures.
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Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.
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My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
