Peter Coyote Quotes and Sayings
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Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
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Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.
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Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
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I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
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I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
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I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
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I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.
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Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
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It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
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Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
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Money is a way of creating scarcity.
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The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
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The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
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You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
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