Peter McWilliams Quotes
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
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I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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I love Al Pacino.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn't going to happen. My daughter's mom thought it wasn't going to happen, and a couple of girlfriends. You just gotta keep on doing it. I'm living proof.
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I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
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I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic.
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Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
