William Petersen Quotes
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That's such a difficult constraint, we can't have any other constraints.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.
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I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
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It wasn't getting worse at all. It was just feeling tight.
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The course and the predictability of the SPD is no longer clear.
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In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.
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I can't really sit around and talk with people who believe that the Bible is the way it happened, because that's man-made. I'm a writer, too; that's how I look at the Bible. Like, 'I could've written a better version than that,' you know? At least a more interesting one, and then maybe more people would go to church. I could definitely do a revamp.
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The best stuff - the most interesting stuff - usually happens when I allow myself to be in the moment and working from that space.
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Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.
