Peter Billingsley Quotes
I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
Quotes to Explore
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
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As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.
