Dale Peck Quotes
Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
Quotes to Explore
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.
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I feel like a lot of artists these days are going out with being a feminist and making it cool, and being outspoken and letting it be mainstream, which is a great thing. I absolutely think it should be mainstream to be a feminist, it should be a no-brainer to speak up about stuff and have a voice.
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After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
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The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf ball well. If I'm not, well, that is another story.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
