Peter Capaldi Quotes

I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

Peter Capaldi

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
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• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

  

  Rachel Roy
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  • Wear
  • Clothing

• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
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• I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

  

  Gattlin Griffith
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• I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
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  • Living

• If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Turn

• I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Me

• Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Science

• I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Up
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• The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
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  • Wine

• Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Integrity

• You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That's the whole world.

  

  Elizabeth Mitchell
  • World
  • Family

• Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Challenge
  • Winning

• Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Justice

• I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

  

  Lily James
  • Up
  • Growing

• I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
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• Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

  

  Nalini Singh
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• I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Son

• The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Time
  • Long
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• If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Minds
  • Germany

• I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.

  

  Peter Capaldi