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Peter T. King Quotes

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

Peter T. King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 5, 1944

Topics

Moment Thought Go Know High Level

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Joan Baez

Violence Bigger Nonviolence Only

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

Michael Hansmeyer

Vision Architecture Building Reality

I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.

Meryl Streep

Culture People Humanity Know Africa

It will not surprise you to learn that it is not uncommon for jockeys who struggle with their weight to starve themselves and spend hours in the sauna to lose a few pounds to be able to make a big-race ride.

Tony McCoy

Struggle Ride Surprise Learn Lose

Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.

Tom Scholz

Live Alone Day Fun People Singing

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

Tom Daley

Gold Win Year Over Been Olympic

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

Roger Rees

Mind Choices One Word Mean Things

I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.

Rory Bremner

I Am New York Proud Financial Worth

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Michael Patrick Jann

Good Style Money Energy Create Way

I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.

Donna Leon

Life Love Music Television Place TV

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

Pierce Brosnan

Trust Saying Believe You Want Them

Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.

Peter Weir

Impossible Camera You Look Director