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

• A couple of my favorite podcasts are 'Still Processing' from 'The New York Times,' Oprah's 'Super Soul Conversations,' RuPaul's 'What's the Tee?'

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • Soul
  • Couple

• Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Essence

• Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • True
  • Water

• The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity.

  

  Dave Morris

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

  

  Peter Munk