Peter Maurer Quotes
It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?
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Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.
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It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.
