Peter McWilliams Quotes

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Peter McWilliams

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• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• I will not leave this Earth until I play Harley Quinn.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Earth
  • Play
  • Leave

• I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Up
  • Think
  • Now

• The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Life
  • World
  • Reality

• The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • America
  • Think
  • Myself

• If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Duty

• The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Life
  • Water
  • Sea

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Cancer

• Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Past
  • Day

• Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Money
  • Want
  • Fight

• Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Black
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly – not what you expect in a western.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Death
  • Scene
  • Myth

• The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • Security
  • Well

• In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Cinema
  • Photographs
  • Supermarket

• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Future
  • Change

• Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • School
  • High
  • Game

• You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer.

  

  Ugo Mochi
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Imagination

• We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Sex
  • Taught
  • Subjects

• There's fantasies about what heaven is like and who Satan is and why you shouldn't masturbate or why you should vote Republican. It's funny because it's an election year and their news broadcasts are constantly talking about "Vote Republican". I think that they think they're being subtle about it, but that's definitely not the case. So I'm like, "What does this have anything to do with the nice advice you were giving about how to live your life, how to get along with your spouse etc?"

  

  Brad Warner
  • Vote
  • Election
  • Republican

• I'm from Europe, England, and I actually lived in Italy.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

• Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

  

  Peter McWilliams