Peter O'Toole Quotes
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
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When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!
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You can't be loved for long if you're not feared.
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I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.
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We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.
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The best part about it was that we were rationed on water (during combat); we could only have so much.
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
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As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
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If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.
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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
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Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
