Peter Capaldi Quotes
If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
