Peter Graves Quotes
I think we were born 6 feet tall and then started to grow from there. My dad's not particularly tall - only 5 feet, 11 inches - but his mother was almost 6 feet and straight as a ramrod: a German woman who used to scare the hell out of me.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.
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Nice goes much further than mean.
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Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
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People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts.
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I think we were born 6 feet tall and then started to grow from there. My dad's not particularly tall - only 5 feet, 11 inches - but his mother was almost 6 feet and straight as a ramrod: a German woman who used to scare the hell out of me.
