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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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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It was in 1915 the old world ended.
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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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The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
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I had been stopped a couple of times -- once in a Lexus and in a Blazer. Both of the cars had factory sound systems. I understand the citizen's position on noise, but the city was towing cars that didn't have loud sound systems. When it happened to me, I knew there was something wrong.
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In my sports or workout life, I like to prove to myself I can do something, whether it's a half marathon or whatever it is. I like to take challenges that scare me because then once we've accomplished it, we feel stronger.
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I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.
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Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.
