Peter Greenaway Quotes

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Peter Greenaway

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I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

Jesse Ventura

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Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.

John Allison

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Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Andrzej Wajda

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The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

John Cho

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First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

John S. Watson

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I don't really like going out for dinner. It's way better to not have to wait for food... It's quite boring. I don't cook anything, though; I just transfer it from the fridge into bowls. I'm more of a transferer than a cook.

Suki Waterhouse

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I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.

Miriam Shor

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McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Joseph R. McCarthy

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I love jeans, T-shirts, and things you can jazz up and down, a bit of a mish-mash.

Jonathan Anderson

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The NCAA model is outdated. If Steve Serby's a great player in high school, and an agent wants to represent you and wants to advance you money as a loan based on the fact that you're gonna be a high draft choice, so be it.

Dick Vitale

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I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage. I also am into isometric workouts.

Chris Cornell

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In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

Alice Morse Earle

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