Peter O'Toole Quotes
It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.
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Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined
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Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.
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Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
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Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.
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New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.
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With so many incidents of identity loss via tape, some are wondering if they should get off tape.
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We will start by providing relief from the unfair marriage penalty tax.
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NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.
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Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.
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There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.
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Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't try to be insensitive. I think really, really carefully about exactly what things mean and how they will affect people.
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The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.
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One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.
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It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
