Peter McWilliams Quotes
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
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The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
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I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
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I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.
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Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
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Brexit wasn't the European people's first cry of revolt. In 2005, France and the Netherlands held referendums about the proposed European Union constitution. In both countries, opposition was massive, and other governments decided on the spot to halt the experiment for fear the contagion might spread.
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Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
