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Peter Coyote Quotes

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: October 10, 1941

Topics

Kind Everyone Civic System Corporate

Everyone always says you have to be on the best team, the team that wins. Oh, no, no, no. I disagree with that.

Best Team You Always Disagree Wins

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

Computers Thinking Internet Anything

'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like 'black-ish' works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.

Challenge Expectations Black America

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Live Opportunity History Journalism

I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.

Brain Doing Never Always Going Off

The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.

Gift Thought Giving News Nonsense

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

Evil Kind Crime Never Falling Order

I like to write about real people, real crimes. But what has increasingly come to interest me, and also appear to me as a challenge, is the idea of doing strange things with what is real. Take what is real and make it more or less real.

Challenge People Me Doing Strange

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

Steve Prefontaine

Best Pain Take Who Most

The theme of the Labor Department's centennial is 'Then, Now, Next.' So in honoring Esther Peterson, we look not just to the past but to the future, acknowledging with honesty and a sense of purpose the lingering challenges we still face and the distance we've yet to travel before equality is truly a reality in the lives of all women.

Women Future Honesty Travel Past

Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor of a singular vision. Which resonates with me.

Music Vision Me Compromise Artist

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

Rodrigo Duterte

Suffering Worry You Exit Planet How

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