Peter Garrett Quotes

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
  • Religious

• I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Almost

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Moment

• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Different
  • Learned
  • Relic

• I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Car

• The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Thanks
  • Wolf

• To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Dance
  • Training
  • Contract

• Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Christmas
  • Something

• My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • High
  • Father
  • Soul

• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friend

• The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Married

• Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fall

• You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

  

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