Peter Cook Quotes
'You are now to retire, as indeed should I, carefully to consider your verdict of 'Not Guilty'.'
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
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When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that's a big win.
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There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
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I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.
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Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.
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I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.
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The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.
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'You are now to retire, as indeed should I, carefully to consider your verdict of 'Not Guilty'.'
