Peter V. Brett Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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I am very flattered that so many people loved 'Chasing Dreams.'
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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When I was a campaign worker, you would meet people who would want to vote but didn't have any money for postage. It happens more often than people think.
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Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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There's a wide world out there, for those willing to brave the dark.
