Peter Jennings Quotes
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
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Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest; Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk. Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament; Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.
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We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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You need the right fuel for the body.
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One writes what one can, or has to, write.
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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
