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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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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I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.
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Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.
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Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.
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Just moments ago, I spoke with George W. Bush and congratulated him on becoming the 43rd president of the United States. And I promised him that I wouldn't call him back this time. I offered to meet with him as soon as possible so that we can start to heal the divisions of the campaign and the contest through which we've just passed.
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Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you really work hard.
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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
