Peter Landesman Quotes
I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.
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The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.
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'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.
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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
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I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
