Peter Mayhew Quotes
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
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Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.
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People like Thomas Aquinas would say we can't talk about God as a creator because we can only have in our heads the idea of a human creator and that can't apply to God. We can't even say that God exists because our notion of existence is too limited to apply to God. People were instructed to think about this in those terms.
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Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.
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Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.
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With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.
