Peter Finch Quotes

Hollywood must have been terrific once.

Peter Finch

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• We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Face
  • Overcoming

• Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Saying

• I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Know
  • Stop
  • Voice

• Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

  

  Tablo
  • Culture
  • You
  • Know

• It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • House
  • Free
  • Advice

• I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Without

• I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Women
  • Think
  • Grace

• The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Army
  • Scientists
  • Skilled

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • People
  • Myself
  • Grace

• I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Wife

• But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Drama
  • Psychology
  • Modified

• Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Bad
  • Nature

• She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Selfish

• For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.

  

  Lisa Madigan

• What's the legacy of President Obama? I think this is just another, another example of passing the buck. It never stops at the White House.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Legacy
  • White House
  • President Obama

• First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.

  

  Christopher Shays
  • War

• At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Way
  • Boys
  • Faith In God

• As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

  

  Elizabeth of Hungary
  • Heaven
  • Creatures
  • Performed

• Hollywood must have been terrific once.

  

  Peter Finch