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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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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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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Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
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We're like a really nice drink. We help people get through the day-we make life a little sunnier. I don't think we have any profound effect. If anybody has had a profound effect, it's The Beatles, and their effect is still minimal. There are things in the world way more important than music. Family is 50 times more important than music.
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People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.
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I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
