Peter Mayer Quotes

It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.

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• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Sex

• Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Walking

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Night

• I've never been in an acting class in my life.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Blame
  • Ideal
  • Promoting

• I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Many

• When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that's a big win.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Present
  • Win
  • Stars

• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Mind
  • Positive
  • Door

• I love love. I'm, like, obsessed with it.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • Like
  • Obsessed

• People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Movie
  • Parents

• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Mind
  • Should
  • Criminal

• Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Country
  • Man
  • Politics

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Society
  • Man
  • Doubt

• We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Home
  • Childhood
  • Find

• God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• Always, for me, when I am dealing with subjects related to my country that are very emotional, I have to find the right tone and distance because, obviously, I start with anger, asking 'why that happened' and 'why it is still happening.' I work to rise above my personal anger but still stay connected to my emotions. That's a big challenge.

  

  Jasmila Zbanic
  • Work
  • Country
  • Why

• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Exclusive

• The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Up
  • Job
  • Color

• Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Today

• I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Thoughts
  • Accept
  • Conclusion

• It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.

  

  Peter Mayer