Peter Weller Quotes

I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

Peter Weller

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• I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Generations

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Information

• I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Appreciation

• Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Real
  • You
  • Obstacles

• There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Urban

• I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

  

  Kanye West
  • Know
  • Better
  • Paid

• Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Morning
  • Brain
  • Years

• Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Acting
  • Strange
  • Very

• The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Dance
  • Enemy

• Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Worst
  • Facebook
  • Myspace

• But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Food
  • Said

• Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Opportunity
  • Wrong

• That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?

  

  Kage Baker
  • God
  • Age
  • House

• 'You must be a prophet right enough,' said Alvin Junior, 'cause I can’t understand a thing you said.'

  

  Orson Scott Card

• 'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Good
  • Lies

• I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Today
  • Daughter

• Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • People
  • World
  • History

• As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Nice

• Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the presence of the astounding facts of the universe.

  

  John Burroughs
  • God
  • Science
  • Feeling

• A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of answering questions, giving people directions, or taking orders.

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

  

  Peter Weller