Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
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The term many presupposes the term one, and the term one presupposes the term many.
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Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.
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I love American muscle cars. It's my thing.
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There's just something about the audiences in Detroit that I've always felt connected to. Detroit is different.
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You can't trust actors.
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Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.
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You must spend money to make money.
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My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.
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My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
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I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional - it was just the unfortunate result of a burning desire to get the best out of myself and achieve as much as possible.
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The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.
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The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.
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You're going to work out and try to maintain the strength you gain in the offseason, and then you work to gain after the season is over.
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Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.
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Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.
