Peter Mayhew Quotes

I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

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• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Lost
  • Purpose
  • Practice

• I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Song
  • Me

• My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reading

• On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Wrong
  • Special
  • Roots

• Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Cancer

• The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • Religious

• And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head. So he’s built a theory around us, has he? He added two and two and came up with five, but nobody else in the house was aware there was anything to count.

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You have to ration your opponents' victories. You have to mete them out, slowly and meanly. You have to make your opponents subliminally grateful for every little bit of compliance. That way you get away with giving up ten small losses a day, rather than ten big ones.

  

  Lee Child
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• The Master is not concerned with what we believe - only with what we see.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Believe

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• You cannot come here because you are not white.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • You
  • White
  • Here

• By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact. It is a statement of faith.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Simple

• Quis iustius induit armascire nefas: magno se iudice quisque tuetur;Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni.

  

  Lucan

• I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Know
  • Thought

• 'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Fun
  • Star

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'

  

  Bennett Miller

• Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry
  • Mirror

• I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

  

  Peter Mayhew