Peter T. King Quotes
The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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You never know how much time you got.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
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China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
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I'm ready to be an action figure. I'd love that very much. And all the redheaded kids will get to go out and feel loved and be able to buy a redheaded action figure.
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As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
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You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.
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I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.
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I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.
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Mmm, I love Yoda. I didn't like Jar Jar Binks though, he was all wrong.
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One of the primary ways that astronomers study stars is to spread their light out into a rainbow, which we call a spectrum, and from that rainbow, we can learn something about what the stars are composed of and how hot they are, how bright they are, and how they're moving, at least how they're moving toward or away from us.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.
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I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
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It's a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coach.
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The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.
