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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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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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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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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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.
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My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
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I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too long, I'm like, 'I think it's time to leave.' I don't know what that's going to do to me in later life.
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I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
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About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
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Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.
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Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
