Peter McWilliams Quotes
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
