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Peter Jurasik Quotes

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

Peter Jurasik

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 25, 1950

Topics

Childhood New York Sweet Look Back

I'd rather be in my house crying than be sitting with someone talking about shoes, y'know?

Meg Myers

Shoes Someone Talking House Sitting

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

John Lasseter

Mother Simple Baby Short You Desk

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Robert Scoble

Culture Design Enough You Hacker

I have never hesitated to work hard and always try and give my best in whatever I am doing.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Work Best I Am Work Hard Doing Try

Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

Steve Martin

Music World You Look Kind Anything

As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.

Toshihiko Fukui

Growth Research New Development

When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Work Happy People Literature Doing

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

Jon Bernthal

Best Hate Job World Ridiculous Talk

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

Dolly Parton

Growing Up Sexy Growing Nothing Up

New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

Donald Hall

Age Old Age Me Grow Feel New

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.

Cliff Stearns

Development Thursday Property Give

Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.

Alice Dreger

Rainbow Me Think Friends Someone