Peter Lerangis Quotes
I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.
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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
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I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
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People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.
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Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
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I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
