Peter Jennings Quotes
Are we out of step with the administration because we do not comport completely to their political point of view?... So they criticize us for it. It goes with the territory, and if we get a groundswell we begin to look at ourselves.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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He was smiling. It was one of those sincere smiles grown-ups give kids when they’re trying to get them in arm’s reach for something bad. Doctors smile that way right before they give you a shot; teachers look the same just before they tell you they found out what you did. The Big Bad Wolf probably smiled at Red Riding Hood like that when he was pretending to be her grandma. Despite all my mother’s flaws including her mean streak, I never once saw that travesty of an expression on her face.
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Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.
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Are we out of step with the administration because we do not comport completely to their political point of view?... So they criticize us for it. It goes with the territory, and if we get a groundswell we begin to look at ourselves.
