Peter Ackroyd Quotes
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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You have good days and bad days.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
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Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
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If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
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When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.
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What people demand is what the policies serve.
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No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.
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I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'
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You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.
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One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.
