Peter Riegert Quotes
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.Peter Riegert
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
Manti Te'o -
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Barkhad Abdi -
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.
Oleg Cassini -
I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
Maisie Williams -
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
Lafcadio Hearn -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
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?
Kate Atkinson -
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.
Harold Wilson -
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.
Ted Naifeh -
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
Nate Silver
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I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.
Xavier Becerra -
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.
Ian Williams Battles -
The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
Taliesin -
'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
Isaac Asimov -
I could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things that are not, bring to naught things that are.
Oliver Cromwell
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But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.
Alastair Reynolds -
There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.
Paul Watson -
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
Debbie Stabenow -
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
Matthew Bourne -
I'm a big advocate of breastfeeding.
Arizona Muse -
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
Peter Riegert