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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To me it is a riddle that Knut Wicksell, who for most of his life was a fanatical representative of extreme opinions in the social debate, could present a completely different personality in the scholarly context. During the period when I knew him he was the diffident seeker after scientific truth.
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You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.
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I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.
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Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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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.
