Pete Gallego Quotes
I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.
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We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
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I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
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I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
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I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.
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My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.
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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
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I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.
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I told the president 'no' to special treatment for Congress when he tried to exempt them from Obamacare.
