Peter Daniell Doherty Quotes
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.
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I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.
