Oscar Peterson Quotes
I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
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I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.
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I would like to think that monogamy works: that once you make that vow, that decision in your life to stay committed, you actually get to keep that promise; you get to keep that commitment. I think that once you start to lose that, once you start to wonder, even emotionally - especially emotionally - your relationship is bound to get lost.
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A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
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Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.
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When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
