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

• The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.

  

  Walter Wink
  • Belief
  • Obstacles
  • Greatest

• I don't have a Bluetooth thing on my ear. That bugs me.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Ear
  • Bugs
  • Bluetooth

• I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Know
  • Baby
  • Starting

• In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Experiments

• Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Men
  • Business
  • Think

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

  

  William Petersen
  • Stuff
  • Germany
  • Bugs