Peter Landesman Quotes
I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.
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This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."
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If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.
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Let the free market for wireless services and devices flourish. If the government gets out of the way, the wireless marketplace will continue to be an American success story.
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I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.
