Peter Hammill Quotes
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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You're gifted to do something.
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I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to making rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the science of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience.
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I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!
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I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.
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Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.
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I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
