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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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
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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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My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
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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 didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.
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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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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.
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Women's place is where they can do the most good.
