Gary Peters Quotes
Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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He that is rich is wise.
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I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.
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Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
