Pete Ploszek Quotes
Working on a big-budget summer blockbuster with a built-in fan base is a dream come true for any actor.
Quotes to Explore
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Being queen is overrated.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
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Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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I sensed I was about to take one of the most important risks of my life. But I felt so right that I didn't hesitate.
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Working on a big-budget summer blockbuster with a built-in fan base is a dream come true for any actor.
