Diana Peterfreund Quotes

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

Diana Peterfreund

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Past

• I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Trying
  • Learn
  • Diet

• When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Action
  • Politics

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Mechanical

• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Past
  • Present

• The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT- ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Management

• ...reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Innocent

• The chief impression left by a study of Crowley's life and works is that he wasted an immense amount of time and energy trying to shock everyone he came into contact with, and his dislike of orthodoxy turned him into an unconsciously comic figure, like Don Quixote.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• The important thing was that I had never behaved inappropriately toward any woman, and I had no intention of letting my enemies hang that age-old charge of sexual impropriety around my neck. Those who wished only to exploit my past failings, not forgive them, would get no help from me.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Important
  • Help
  • Age

• A true conservative - who is, above all, an anti-ideologue - will often be attacked for alleged inconsistency, for changing positions, for promising change but not a radical break with the past, for pursuing two objectives - like liberty and authority, or change and continuity - that seem to all ideologues as completely contradictory.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • True
  • Past

• I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That's why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.

  

  Neymar
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• I'm not the beautiful one.

  

  Heather Donahue
  • Beautiful

• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Myself
  • Distance
  • Insecurity

• No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

  

  Diana Peterfreund
  • Trying
  • Past
  • Action