Peter O'Toole Quotes
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I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
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I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.
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I've seen America in this campaign, and I like what I see. It's worth fighting for and that's a fight I'll never stop. As for the battle that ends tonight, I do believe, as my father once said, that 'No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out.'
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What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!
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I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.
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If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.
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Never surrender opportunity for security.
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If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.
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The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at the bottlenecks. The other way you increase bottleneck capacity is to take some of the load off the bottlenecks and give it to non-bottlenecks.
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Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
