H. Burke Peterson Quotes
Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening carefully or we will never recognize them.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
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Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren't afraid of imperfection.
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.
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The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
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I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.
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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
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Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening carefully or we will never recognize them.
