Peter Capaldi Quotes
I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
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Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.
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One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.
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For peace to come, it is time for them - and all of us - to live up to our responsibilities.
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For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.
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What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
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Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
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I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
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So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.
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I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'
