M. Scott Peck Quotes
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I just want to do my job.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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But I think we need the international market.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.
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The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.
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I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
