Peter Billingsley Quotes

I've always been self-motivated, but I can't take a ton of credit for any success I've had.

Peter Billingsley

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• When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Men
  • Community

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Romantic
  • Hard
  • Comedies

• If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Money
  • Doing

• Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Never
  • Find

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Football

• I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Google

• When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Family
  • Me

• In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Money
  • Like
  • Car

• I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Record
  • Dialogue
  • CD

• 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Real
  • Value
  • Personality

• I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Friends

• My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • She
  • Parents

• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

  

  James Daly
  • Great
  • Business

• The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Power
  • My Wife

• I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Success
  • Never
  • New York

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word-on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray. (64).

  

  Epictetus

• I've always been self-motivated, but I can't take a ton of credit for any success I've had.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Success
  • Motivated