Peter Riegert Quotes

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

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• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • True
  • Father

• I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Play
  • Characters

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Types

• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • True
  • Language
  • Symbolism

• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Motivational

• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Family
  • American
  • Society

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Born
  • Appearance

• Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Food
  • Health

• I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Say
  • Fascinated

• We see the Super Hornet as an opportunity... to tie directly into the 'Make in India' strategy.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
  • Opportunity

• No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

  

  Megan Shull

• The whole arena-type thing, our home court is a big setting, so that really didn't shock us or anything. It's just getting used to the ball. New ball, new place, new exposure.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Ball
  • Court
  • Shock

• When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.

  

  Cardi B
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Women

• When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

  

  Peter Riegert
  • Star
  • Competition