Peter Gabriel Quotes

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• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • God
  • Love
  • Help

• If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Advice
  • Self
  • Calm

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
  • Modern

• I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Pretty
  • Yoga
  • Dedicated

• 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.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Money

• I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

  

  Emerson Fittipaldi
  • World
  • Important
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Allan Savory
  • Space
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• If I ever end up on the worst-dressed list, it's not going to make me fall apart.

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Up
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • American
  • History

• When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • Beach
  • Volleyball

• 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.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Environment

• 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?'

  

  Mary Roach
  • Time

• I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

  

  Elena Anaya

• 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.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Freedom
  • Small

• Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.

  

  Alvin E. Roth
  • Help
  • Understanding
  • Design

• The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Director
  • Surround
  • Smartest

• You also have to surround yourself with people who have the same dreams and values as you do.

  

  Allan Pineda Lindo The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Values
  • Surround

• Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.

  

  Charles Negre
  • Real
  • Character
  • Cases

• Sort of like the March of Dimes, the kids get sponsors uncles, classmates, older sisters and brothers, cousins to say, 'Hey, I'll give you a dollar or five dollars for one lap around the track. The kids do a quarter-mile lap, which is one lap around the track at Drake Stadium, and the kids raise money for other children.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Kids
  • Uncles
  • Classmates

• Surround yourself with brilliance.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Surround
  • Brilliance