Jim Peebles famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

  • In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  • Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

  • I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  • There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

  • There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

  • To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

  • Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

  • Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

  • I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.