Peter Sellers Quotes
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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We ain't goin' study war no more.
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I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
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We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?
