Peter Billingsley Quotes
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I write novels and other things.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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I love twins stories.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BBC Children in Need,' and really have a bit of fun with it, I was happy to take part.
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
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The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.
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I guess I've always had a similar-looking face.
