Peter Landesman Quotes
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
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My adversary is the world of finance.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
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I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.
