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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I had not failed to interpret the significance of that dark frown, that bitten lip and those flashing eyes, nor the way the willowy figure had quivered, indicating, unless she had caught a chill, that she was as sore as a sunburned neck.
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I've auditioned five or six times. I'm not very good at it.
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The satisfactions of agreement are immediate as sugar - a melting of the granular, a syrup that lingers, shared not singular. Many prefer it.
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How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.
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I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.
