Oscar Peterson Quotes
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
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I play as I feel.
