Peter Billingsley Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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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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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do our own bodies... yet the auto has replaceable parts.
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Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.
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One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in 'Sylvia' is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they're communicating.
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Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.
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The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.
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I'm generally not a fan of remaking great films.
