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 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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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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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 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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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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The Steelers have influenced everything I've done as an adult.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
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My style is difficult to contain in a sentence; it's ever evolving. Generally I'm drawn to clean cuts and avoid patterns. I tend to choose structure and block colors, but these are all just loose guidelines.
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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.
