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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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
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There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
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Star Trek characters never go shopping.
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I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.
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I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
