Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes
If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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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.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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The law doesn't create a right.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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'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.'
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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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.
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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.
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I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
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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.
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'Hannah Montana' gets no disrespect from me because it's certainly done me a lot of favors.
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All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
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Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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Our guys in the fourth quarter are fighting their guts out. I would hope that they'd start the game like that.
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If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
