Peter T. King Quotes
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.
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I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'
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I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.
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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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I think I'm one of the people who brought about peace in Ireland.
