Peter O'Toole Quotes
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
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Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.
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Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
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Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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I woke up and one of us was crying.
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I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
