Dennis Potter Quotes
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I don't like attacking.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
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Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.
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In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.
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I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
