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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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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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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Nothing lasts.
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Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.
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We built a business for ourselves just out of hard work, and I think people really want to hear from us about that.
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If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.
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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.
