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'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.
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If and when the war starts(WW2), no matter where or whoever you are or if you are young or old, Northner or Southner, you all have the responsibility of protecting our home and repelling the enemy, you all must have the will to achieve ultimate sacrifice.
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To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives, so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single one.
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I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
