Peter Gabriel Quotes
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.
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Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
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I go through money like a bloke with three arms.
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I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.
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Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.
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I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
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If I ever end up on the worst-dressed list, it's not going to make me fall apart.
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Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.
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When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.
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Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny.
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For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when I spend all my days going, 'Hello, you don't know me. I'd like to ask you some questions. Do you have a little time?'
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I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
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In a well-run tech company, small, elite groups who have ownership in the company are given the freedom to define and achieve their tasks in line with a broader mission that they have internalized as their own.
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Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.
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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
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The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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Roots. Right now I'm still in love with playing ska and reggae music, but I don't think twice about playing anything that feels right to me.
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Surround yourself with brilliance.
