Peter R. Grant Quotes

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

Peter R. Grant

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• Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Black
  • Funny

• I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Obsessed

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • True
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Space
  • Building
  • Everyone

• Man, an animal that makes bargains.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Makes

• I'm a perfectionist.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Perfectionist

• I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Culture
  • Week
  • Celebrate

• Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Running
  • Dad

• Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Different
  • Children
  • Rest

• American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Important
  • American

• I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Men
  • Law

• It is very possible that a proper understanding of string theory will make the space-time continuum melt away.... String theory is a miracle through and through.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Time
  • Space
  • Understanding

• Already madness lifts its wing to cover half my soul.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Soul

• If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 4 600 000 000 years old. It could end in an afternoon.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• My grandpa sells condoms to sailors, He punctures the tips with a pin, My grandma does back-street abortions, My god how the money rolls in.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • God
  • Money
  • Grandma

• It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

  

  Elizabeth Kenny
  • Life
  • Lion

• Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Good
  • Question

• Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.

  

  Tom DeLonge Box Car Racer
  • Struggle
  • Find
  • Way Out

• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.

  

  Peter R. Grant