Peter O'Toole Quotes
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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And we're going, 'Oh, Captain Clever! Whoa-ho-ho! Rattle it, and if it doesn't go off, it can't be a bomb!'
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.
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Sometimes I think about all the hours spent making lunches, carting kids from one place to another, being up in the middle of the night taking temperatures. People who haven't had to do that have, say, read every last book up there from cover to cover and probably remember it. There are trade-offs. But more life is more life.
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Personal brand equity erodes much faster than corporate brand equity.
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
