Peter Jennings Quotes
Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.
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In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.
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There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.
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Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
