William Petersen Quotes
Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.
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When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says.
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Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.
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For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
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Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.
