L. Tom Perry Quotes
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Too clever is dumb.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
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I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.
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My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is the only thing that kept him from being an actor.
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A family needs a father to anchor it.
