Peter T. King Quotes
I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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I don't know anything about Amazon's culture; I've never worked there.
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I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.
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There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
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That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
