Peter Coyote Quotes

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• Money is a way of creating scarcity.
• 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.
• Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.
• The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
• Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as…
• 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…
• Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.
• 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…
• The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no…
• The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.
• My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.
• My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I…
• Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.
• My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

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