Peter Riegert Quotes
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
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Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.
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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
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I want to make Seoul more attractive. I want to make it a good investment.
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Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if the lower animals, with very simple organizations, showed pathological phenomena, and if so, infection, cure and immunity could be observed among them.
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What is not discussed, will not be advanced.
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I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.
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Jesus would not be crucified today. The prophets would not be stoned. Socrates would not drink the hemlock. They would instead be banned from the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages by the sentries of establishment thinking who guard against dissent with the one weapon of mass destruction most cleverly designed to obliterate democracy: the rubber stamp.
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I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
