Peter Segal Quotes

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Peter Segal

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

  Adam Braun
  • School
  • Business
  • Education

• I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • House
  • Kind
  • Wood

• I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Work
  • God
  • Magic

• I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Lost
  • Face
  • Wrestling

• My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mom

• The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • World
  • Long
  • Relationship

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Free
  • Belief
  • Atheist

• As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Black
  • Know
  • Design

• I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Love
  • Help

• When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Home
  • America
  • Philosophical

• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Wrong is for other people.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Other

• 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Paradise

• 31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Simplicity

• Liberty is a duty, not a right.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

  

  David Guetta
  • Done

• I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • Time

• Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Age
  • Dream

• As a witness of that period, I am also deeply convinced that John Bell indirectly played a crucial role in the progress of the application of quantum mechanics to individual objects, microscopic and mesoscopic. The example of his intellectual freedom, that had led to the recognition of the importance of entanglement, was no doubt an encouragement to those who were contemplating the possibility of developing new approaches, beyond the so-efficient paradigm developed decades earlier. His example opened the gate for new quantum explorations.

  

  Alain Aspect
  • Role
  • Quantum
  • Explorations

• I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

  

  Peter Segal