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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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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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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'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.
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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.
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The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.
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When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
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The word 'God,' so 'capitalised' (as we Americans say), is the definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really creator of all three Universes of Experience.
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Anytime anybody asks you to do anything that is celebrating you or highlighting your life, just the fact that they cared enough about me, who am I to say no? It's a form of flattery to me and I take those things seriously, because in the long run, people don't have to care about you.
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Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.
