Peter Landesman Quotes

Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.

Peter Landesman

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• We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Good
  • Know

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Love
  • Today
  • Black

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Real
  • Want

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Slavery

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Character
  • Education

• I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Wonder

• Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Education
  • System
  • Backbone

• Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Wise
  • Young
  • Characters

• To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Night
  • Decision
  • Basketball

• I'm mad for satin.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mad
  • Satin

• Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Door

• 'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Help

• If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Money
  • High
  • Energy

• The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Great
  • Business
  • Night

• I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because I want to bring great awareness to this cause.

  

  Sara Evans
  • Mom
  • Awareness
  • Anorexia

• I've always thought that good politics follows from good economics and good policies.

  

  George Osborne
  • Good

• [The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.

  

  Charles R. Jackson
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Writer

• If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Military
  • Discover
  • Forces

• Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.

  

  Peter Landesman