Peter Munk Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
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Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.
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I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.
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I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.
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Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.
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My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.
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Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.
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This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
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You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
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I wish I did something like yoga or Pilates. All the people I know who do it tell me it's incredible.
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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.
