Peter Landesman Quotes

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

Peter Landesman

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Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

Joanna Lumley

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Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

John Glenn

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If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

John Harvey Kellogg

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James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

Tracy Pollan

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Rudyard Kipling

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Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.

Miguel Nicolelis

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Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

Dick Cavett

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I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.

Deepika Padukone

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Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.

Brett Gelman

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I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

Wynton Marsalis

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I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.

Susan Olsen

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I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

Richie Havens

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