Peter Munk Quotes

I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Years
  • More
  • Contentment

• 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.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Movement
  • Dictatorship

• Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Couple
  • Married
  • Uncomfortable

• I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Friends

• When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Performance
  • Zero
  • Returning

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Blue

• For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Me
  • Really
  • Excited

• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Fall
  • Humility

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Person
  • Movies
  • Twins

• I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• 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.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Healthy

• My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Author
  • Athlete
  • Accomplishment

• As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we're on location and shooting at night, it's just magic. I got to do that so many times working on 'Vampire Diaries' that it filled my hat.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Time
  • Work
  • Night

• As a Punjabi, you only have to look at your own family's past to find horror stories about arranged marriages and brutality.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Family
  • Past
  • Look

• I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Up
  • Three
  • Dogs

• Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • People

• Dance on, dance on, we see, we seeYouth goes, alack, and with it glee,A boy the old man ne’er can be;Maternal thirty scarce can findThe sweet sixteen long left behind.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Long
  • Dance
  • Boy

• Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• If there's anything I can't stand, it's the cliche of the female handler who's always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It's such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It's like, is this all she's ever going to be?

  

  Chris Avellone
  • She
  • Player
  • Tired

• The reason you see so many volcanoes on Venus is partly due to the fact that there's virtually no erosion there. So on Venus, you're seeing features, some of which are hundreds of millions of years old on the surface. On Earth, we do not see any surface features nearly that old - you only see much more recent features.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Earth

• In terms of CBS, I think that the consistency for them, it feels like they have a really clear sense of who they are and what they want, and they're able to keep delivering very consistently on their brand, which is really terrific, and I think NBC has taken some really smart and interesting routes in the things that they've done.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Taken

• Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

  

  Robin Thicke
  • Constant
  • Redemption

• I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

  

  Peter Munk