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Peter Singer Quotes

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

Peter Singer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: australian
Birth: July 6, 1946

Topics

Lie Sun Writing World Book Think

With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break.

Melanie Mayron

Week You Person Kind Always Break

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

Andie MacDowell

Love Women Trust Men People Think

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

Jean-Luc Godard

Journey Movies Never Seen Even Knew

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

Michael Imperioli

Freedom Time Yourself School People

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Amy Winehouse

Parents Whatever Pretty Would Much

I've always been a very goal-driven person.

Amanda Crew

Person Always Been Very

I love restaurants from top to bottom.

Tom Douglas

Love Top Bottom I Love Restaurants

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

Mary Karr

Age Me Looking Attention Healthy Up

There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.

Luke Hemsworth

Australia Missed Places Level Ease

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Plan House Wishes Play Important

'Humans of New York' did not result from a flash on inspiration. It grew from five years of experimenting, tinkering, and messing up.

Brandon Stanton

New York Result New Inspiration Up

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

Sylvia Day

More Who Than Troubled Heroines