Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.
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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
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I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
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Life is really hard for some people.
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Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
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I am happy being what I am.
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Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.
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I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.
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When it rains, I have good energy; I'm in a good mood.
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When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.
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The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.
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India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"
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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
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Women's place is where they can do the most good.
