Laurence J. Peter Quotes
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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Two powerful people can't be friends.
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I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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I find myself asking questions that as a filmmaker I never thought I would ask. Like I get a call from a magazine for a feature and my first question is, 'Cover or not?' Interview invite from a leading channel? I have stopped asking the topic. I'm just like 'Primetime or not?' If I am invited and put in the second row, I can be distraught for days!
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But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
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You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
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I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
