Peter Landesman Quotes
I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.
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You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.
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If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
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The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.
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I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
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We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.
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I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
