Peter Jennings Quotes
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
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Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.
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I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.
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I wear non-gender-specific clothes. I just look silly in girls' clothes. I'm quite tall, and they're never the right cut for me - T-shirts and stuff are always too low-cut or too short. I've worn boys' clothes forever because girls' stuff never felt right for me.
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I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
