Peter O'Toole Quotes
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.
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Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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(About Elton John) He's my fairy Godfather; literally that's what I call him. ... Hopefully while I'm in town there'll be a moment I can share my new boobs with him. I have to show him, because he gets to see. Not that he's really caring, but I flashed him my other ones so he has to see these ones too. He has to see the new set.
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If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.
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I draw inspiration from my life, and, honestly, a lot of my religious beliefs have stemmed into my music.
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I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.
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I'm not a caregiver.
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I want to be happy. We all want to be happy. I want to be treated like a normal human being, but I also want to be on stage in a fancy dress, so I'm trying to find a happy medium.
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I'm just trying to experiment with a lot of different stuff and see what comes out of it.
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To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.
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The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.
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If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.
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It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
