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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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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I never knew my father. He'd disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it's never bothered me; I certainly don't believe it's really affected me.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
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Talk to the tree, make friends with it.
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The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.
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We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.
