Peter Sellers Quotes
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
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Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.
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I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!
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I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
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The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he is careful to be kind, in his manner to be respectful, in his words to be sincere, in his work to be diligent. When in doubt he is careful to ask for information; when angry he has a care for the consequences; and when he sees a chance for gain, he thinks carefully whether the pursuits of it would be right.
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Mein Führer! I can walk!
