Peter Landesman Quotes
Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
Quotes to Explore
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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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.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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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.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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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.
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The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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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.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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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.
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I'm mad for satin.
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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.
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Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
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True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.
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There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!
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We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.
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My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.
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Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
