Peter O'Toole Quotes
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
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It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Nature is not human hearted.
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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
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There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!
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This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
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Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
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Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
