Peter O'Toole Quotes
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!
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History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.
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The building’s beauty is a metaphor for hers Mumtaz Mahal and is thus contemplated as feminine. It is builder's feeling for the woman interred within. What else but passion, they ask, could have inspired something so perfect?
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All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.
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Hours are golden links, God's tokenReaching heaven; but one by oneTake them, lest the chain be brokenEre the pilgrimage be done.
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Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
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I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.
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I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
