Peter Benchley Quotes
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
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And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
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It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.
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The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses.
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When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.
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She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters.
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If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.
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He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’
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...it is possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.
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I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.
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As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.
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And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
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I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.
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So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
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99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.
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Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.
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I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.
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We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
