George Peter John Criscuola (Peter Criss) Quotes
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I don't study; I create.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
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We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.
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Thank you … San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you … for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.
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I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
