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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With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
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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 like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.
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Most people live their life around what other people do.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
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The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.
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Mein Führer! I can walk!
