Peter Higgs Quotes
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad.
Quotes to Explore
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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People who know my stage act know it's nothing but pushing boundaries.
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
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I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.
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My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.
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My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad.
