Peter Lawford Quotes
I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
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What you see is what you get.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
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I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
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I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
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I don't care about winning an MVP - the MVP doesn't mean you're the best player in the league.
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I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.
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Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
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One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.
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Bridges are a troll's specialty. Whether because of some magic or just because of aptitude, you never get across the bridge without facing the troll. That's life, I guess.
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I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.
