Peter Benchley Quotes
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
Gavin Newsom -
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
Kate Hudson -
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.
Kacey Musgraves -
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
Walter Lippmann -
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles
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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.
Karin Slaughter -
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.
T. D. Jakes -
It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.
Zoe Sugg -
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.
Yves Behar -
When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.
Magic Johnson -
She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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!’
P. G. Wodehouse -
...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.
Bertrand Russell -
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.
Albert Camus -
As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.
Claire McCaskill -
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.
Jacques Rivette
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My weekends start at about 4 P.M. on Friday afternoon, when I let go of work and leave my colleagues to crawl through the rest of the day in our New York offices.
Bobbi Brown -
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
George Gershwin -
I have a fairly normal domestic life.
Peter Capaldi -
Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.
Jonathan Van Ness -
Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.
Betty Smith -
We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
Peter Benchley