Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
Kate Winslet
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Society becomes how we behave.
Gavin Newsom
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
Fat Joe
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
Barbara Palvin
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
Magnus Carlsen
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
Fiona Shaw
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Imran Khan
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
Umberto Eco
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
Ichiro Suzuki
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
Tea Obreht
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The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
Wally Schirra
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I have popular support.
Saad Hariri
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Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
Wayne Rogers
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
Rain
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
Lady Gaga
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
Thomas More
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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
Jack Adams
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
Esther Peterson