Gary Peters Quotes
I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.
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Americans can't handle the truth.
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Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars.
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It isn't hard to stay in shape.
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I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.
