Peter Landesman Quotes
I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.
Quotes to Explore
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.
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It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.
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My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.
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I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.
