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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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?
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I thought I'd go away and make one album, but it was extended. The album did so well, and they wanted another album. I was on a high. You make hay while the sun shines, and I was doing it, and you think about yourself; that's what you do.
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I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
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I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.
