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Peter Greenberg

Peter Greenberg quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.”
-- Peter Greenberg

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“From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.”
-- Peter Greenberg

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“Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.”
-- Peter Greenberg

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“But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.”
“The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.”
“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
“In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.”
“In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.”
“I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.”
“I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.”
“I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.”
“Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.”
“Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.”

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