Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

Esther Peterson

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• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Islamic

• I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • World
  • Believe
  • Done

• I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Dying
  • Talking

• The law doesn't create a right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Right
  • Create

• We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Balance

• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Potential
  • saw

• 'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Want
  • Town
  • Professor

• If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Something
  • Happen
  • Respond

• 'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.

  

  Ram Charan
  • High
  • Career
  • Song

• When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

  

  Edmund White
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Believe
  • Stories

• Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Know
  • Best

• Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Life
  • Up

• I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Hope

• Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Information

• 'Hannah Montana' gets no disrespect from me because it's certainly done me a lot of favors.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Done
  • Disrespect

• I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • Important
  • Control

• Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

  

  Arthur Rock

• I am more human than rational.

  

  Karen Essex
  • Human
  • Rational

• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• I tell people that the Clipse were the first Internet rap darlings.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • People
  • Rap

• If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

  

  Esther Peterson
  • Fighting
  • Determined
  • Frustrated