William Petersen Quotes

I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.

William Petersen

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• Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Angry

• 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.'

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Said

• 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.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • World
  • Nice
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Break
  • Forgotten
  • Changing

• I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Education
  • Finish
  • Homeless

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Way
  • Never
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Worth

• 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.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Society
  • Free
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Child

• Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Enough

• 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.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Song

• It wasn't getting worse at all. It was just feeling tight.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Feeling
  • Health

• Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Made
  • Stuff
  • Poet

• The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Problem
  • Living
  • Solution

• I was working as a cocktail waitress in a heavy metal bar. Then, my manager said I should try some acting, which led to an audition Satisfaction, where I played a musician in an all-girl band. That movie is where I met my future ex-husband Jody Porter.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Movie
  • Satisfaction
  • Manager

• I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"

  

  Craig Seymour
  • Body
  • Childhood
  • Write

• I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.

  

  William Petersen
  • Stuff
  • Germany
  • Bugs