Peter Landesman Quotes
My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.
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My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.
