Peter Lerangis Quotes

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Peter Lerangis

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Audience

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• Music will always be my greatest passion.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Greatest

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Best
  • Working
  • Minimum Wage

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Information

• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Food

• Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Door
  • Wait
  • Elevator

• I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Music
  • End
  • Short

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• Truth is a tendency.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Tendency

• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Information
  • Leaving
  • Accept

• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Money
  • Society
  • Almost

• I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Question
  • Eyes
  • Violence

• When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Business
  • Sports

• If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Good
  • Music
  • Bad

• It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Music
  • Matter
  • Shows

• I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Song

• SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

  

  Peter Lerangis
  • Music
  • Technology