Peter Gabriel Quotes
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
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Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
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If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.
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Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
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I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.
