Peter Billingsley Quotes
When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It's amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Let us have peace.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
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And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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When I was going to get ready to take 'Dietland' up, I have to say I was surprised to find that I felt like maybe we wouldn't find a home for it because it's unlike anything else that I've done.
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I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It's amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive.
