Peter O'Toole Quotes
There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.
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Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
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The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded.
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I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.
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There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.
