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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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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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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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum: Those who know do not say; Those who say do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, 'Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?' All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, 'put it into words.' All of them were silent.
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I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
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The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
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I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.
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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.
