Peter Cook Quotes
There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
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It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.
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There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.
