Peter Jennings Quotes
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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The world wants to like America.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride?
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All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.
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Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
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it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass ('Dialectic of Teleological Judgment' §75)
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
