Peter Singer Quotes
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I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.
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It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.
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To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honourable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions which beget further war.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
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I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I very shyly, timidly admitted that I wanted to be an actor. He sighed, and he said, 'Lupita, only be an actor if you feel there is nothing else in the world you want to do - only do it if you feel you cannot live without acting.'
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I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.
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In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.
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Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.
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We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.
