Peter Cook Quotes
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window... I love doing all of that stuff.
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Science is a hobby, and I'm really into it, but it's not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make people laugh. Science, for me, is probably a bit like Danny Baker's love of football or Rod Stewart's obsession with train sets.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
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Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.
