Peter McWilliams Quotes
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
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There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
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Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
