Peter O'Toole Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.
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I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
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Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
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I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying?
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We are bullish on the health benefits, but they have to bring value.
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When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
