Peter Jason Quotes
I've always felt that, in America, we're all equal. I don't care what you make or what kind of car you drive. You're not better than me.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.
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I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
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I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
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There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.
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I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.
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Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a little piece." Poor people don't believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have "nothing."
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Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.
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I've always felt that, in America, we're all equal. I don't care what you make or what kind of car you drive. You're not better than me.
