Peter Hammill Quotes
I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.
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The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, not as subdued, we'll stretch things out more. It's how you stay fresh after such a long time in the business.
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It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.
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I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
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I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.
