Jordan Peterson (Jordan Bernt Peterson) Quotes
It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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I'm really happy in my own skin.
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Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.
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God's not going to promote you because you have a dream, He's going to promote you because you've maximized where you are so now you're ready to go to the next level.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'
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I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.
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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
