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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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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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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As we've learned ? or really re-learned ? one can't build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation.
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People lose their senses at the beach 'cause the sun beats down too hard. They say things that just don't gel, you know. Well, you've heard this a lot: 'Pick up a shell - oh, you can hear the ocean!' You could pick up a bicycle and hear the ocean - you're at the beach. Put the shell down, you'll hear the ocean twice as loud.
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My voice was awkward. I had a deep Texan accent.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
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We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
