Peter Landesman Quotes
I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
-
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
-
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
-
It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
-
'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
-
I just sing. You have to use it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
-
I didn't really enjoy school in general.
-
I'd like to do a really masculine film.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
-
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
-
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.
-
It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.
-
My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.
-
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.
-
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
-
I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
