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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Light
  • Day

• 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.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Writing
  • Universe

• The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Defeat

• 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.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Man
  • Worry
  • Race

• Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Simple
  • Ending

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Parents
  • Support

• 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.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• 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.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cute
  • Funky
  • Climates

• 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.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Games
  • Rules
  • Percent

• One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Real
  • Business
  • Know

• Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Game
  • Team

• I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Time
  • Control
  • Wind

• Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Sports

• My parents had no interest in spending a lot of time with me. They were busy doing what they were doing, but they were not obnoxious. They were fabulous.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • Time
  • Parents

• We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Up
  • May
  • True

• 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.

  

  Peter Landesman
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  • Game