Peter Gabriel Quotes

Snowden's revelations shocked the world and made it very clear why we need to have some way to look over those who look over us. With increasing terrorist attacks, security is critical, but not without any accountability or oversight.

Peter Gabriel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 13, 1950

Topics

WorldAccountabilityLookSecurity

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Mel Gibson

FastSomethingGotHappeningBrakes

When I walk out there on court, I become a maniac... Something comes over me, man.

John McEnroe

WalkManMeBecomeOverOut

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WomenDoorLimitsEndGoalThings

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

Moby

MusicThinkBrightLikeI ThinkHis

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

Douglas Rushkoff

SportsMoneyWinLongCreatingWay

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.

Debra Winger

GreatPeopleBabyFlyingCareYou

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

Cornel West

SayingBelieveBlackCriticismAct

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Bobby Sands

ChildrenLaughterRevengeWillOur

My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William.

Allan Ray

WorkFamilyHard WorkLiveMeMom

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

Peter McWilliams

LifeGreatCreativityInteresting

I believe it's important that Hong Kong does not become another Chinese city.

Richard Li

CityBelieveImportantBecomeDoes

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

Richard Engel

WorldPlaceNowBandMiddleGeneral

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