Peter Fonda Quotes
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.
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The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'
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I pray the gods will give me some reliefAnd end this weary job. One long full yearI've been lying here, on this rooftop,The palace of the sons of Atreus,Resting on my arms, just like a dog.I've come to know the night sky, every star,The powers we see glittering in the sky,Bringing winter and summer to us all,As the constellations rise and sink.
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My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
