Peter Cook Quotes
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
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The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
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I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.
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Tonight this chamber speaks with one voice to the people we represent: It is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.
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An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
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I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted metal to be displayed in front of or inside government buildings, in the name of 'art' that was obviously never meant to give the public any enjoyment and often represented a thumbing of the artist's nose at the public.
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Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?
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Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.
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What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages.
