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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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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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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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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Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.
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Straight to the utmost crown of night he flew. The nothingness was a nakedness, a pointBeyond which thought could not progress as thought. He had to choose. But it was not a choice Between excluding things. It was not a choiceBetween, but of. He chose to include the things That in each other are included, the whole, The complicate, the amassing harmony.
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I almost failed one drama course. All the actors talked in phony accents. It shocked me. I went out for track instead.
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There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
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What doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.
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I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.
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Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
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My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
