Peter Landesman Quotes
My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn't ever share my man with anyone else.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.
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I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.
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Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
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My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
