Peter Jennings Quotes
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
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Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
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My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it.
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Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
