Pete Rose Quotes
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.
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If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin.
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I die - but first I have possessed,And come what may, I have been blessed.
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I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, because if you compare what goes on in my stories to what goes on in popular movies and popular songs, it's very mild.
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Success is a great deodorant.
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A trip to the picture framer's, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I've spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.
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Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
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Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.
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Is anything worth it?
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A guy came up to me in the park and asked if I wanted to buy his CD. I said sure. He got panicked and told me he didn't actually have a CD, and he started crying and then told me he never made it and he's really sorry and called me 'Ralph.' New York's a really weird place.
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President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don't support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean.
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Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.
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These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.
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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
