Peter Benchley Quotes
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
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In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.
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War has taught me that each one of us contains every ingredient of the human recipe. By varying measure we are all cowards and brave men, thieves and honest men, selfish and selfless men, malingerers and champions, weasels and lions. The only question is how much of each attribute we allow- or force - to dominate our being.
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Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.
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Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
