Peter Sellers Quotes

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

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• At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Society
  • Better

• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • More

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Want
  • Stone
  • New Things

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• I'm not a great one for looking back.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Great
  • Looking
  • Looking Back

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Cat
  • Judging
  • Performance

• I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Work
  • House
  • Never

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Often
  • Analogy
  • Misleading

• Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • American
  • Hours
  • Heard

• If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.

  

  Bradley A. Smith
  • Money
  • Political
  • Volunteer

• 'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Age
  • Black
  • Driving

• I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

  

  James Wolcott
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Writing
  • Why
  • History

• It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

  

  Peter Sellers
  • Why