Mike Peters Quotes
It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
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If you realize early what your influence is, you can have a better understanding of what you are writing about.
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Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!
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It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity.
