Peter Billingsley Quotes
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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I don't know what I am. And it's not important.
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In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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It takes a lot of guts to come out to your friends and family. For most gay people, coming out is the most traumatic experience in their life because of the worry about the backlash: 'What's going to happen? Are my parents going to accept me? Are my friends going to accept me? Are my sisters and brothers going to accept me?'
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I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.
