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 think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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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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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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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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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.
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China became the second biggest economy in the world by pegging their currency to the dollar at an artificially cheap rate.
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'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
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I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear what you have to say. The poetry club down the hall may not have the same problem. That's a good problem to have.
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When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
