"Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other."

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Peter Schjeldahl

“You don't become the character”
“Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.”
“Science has failed our mother Earth.”
“I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was the one chance that the government and the people of Colombia gave him to confess his illicit activities and to remain in one place with very favorable conditions.”
“Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.”
“Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.”
“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”
“TV is and will remain the leading medium - whether it's public broadcasting, commercially funded Free-TV, or whether it is our new growth engine, Pay-TV; whether it is distributed via broadcasting or on demand: The future of TV is - TV!”

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