Collin Peterson Quotes
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
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There's backlash about everything I do.
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Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.
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Koch Industries is a multibillion-dollar business.
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I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.
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When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
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Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.
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We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.
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Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.
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I've done a lot of translation in TV, and I can do it. I'm trained to do it. I know how to inject a certain amount of my naturalness into that and where I come from into those things, but it helps if somebody's writing with my experience in mind.
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There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.
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I love any kind of food. I dont have a sweet tooth, but I love haleem.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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The Bible got it wrong when it intimated that the valley contained the shadow of death. Death dwells in the high places.
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Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.
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We need each other's ideas. Now, I'm not talking about racist ideas or misogynistic ideas or cruel or criminal ideas. I'm talking about most of us who have very varied experiences, needs and ideas. It's really about believing that it's an important part of healing America.
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I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.
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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.
