Mike Peters Quotes
We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.
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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is.
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I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
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I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.
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We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.
