Peter Fonda Quotes

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

Peter Fonda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1940

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Texans are by nature independent people.

Joe Barton

NaturePeopleIndependentTexans

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

Andre Holland

MotherWomanMeSmallFindKind

I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.

Amy Landecker

LifeAmazingThinkMy LifeYear

I speak from a black woman's perspective, and that's a specific perspective, but sometimes there are things I want to be understood by folks who may not have an entryway into that concept, so I have to think about how I can open the space to bring those people in. And that does require balance.

Amanda Seales

PerspectiveWomanBalanceSpace

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Amelia Barr

FearSleepManagementPlaceEvents

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambara

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I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.

Ritchie Blackmore

Rock And RollYouRockAlwaysUp

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

Maryanne Wolf

AbilityReadTextBasicMostSimply

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Miguel Syjuco

TruthReactionWhereModernismAbout

The Shawshank Redemption' isn't a movie about a black guy and a white guy who become friends - it's a movie about freedom. At the end, the cathartic experience of seeing our own emotions reflected back to us, that's the purpose of storytelling.

Courtney A. Kemp

FreedomExperiencePurposeBlackEnd

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

Anthony Hopkins

WorldDriver

When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

Philipp Meyer

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