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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
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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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Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
