Peter Quotes - Page 22

• If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

  Helen Clark

  Sorry, Mean, Kids

  "PROFILE: Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme" by David Barber, Asia-Pacific News, March 26, 2009.

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• To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

  Alice Cooper

  People, Laughing, Guy

  "Kerby’s Exclusive Interview with Metal Icon Alice Cooper". Interview with Jeff Kerby, www.knac.com. September 22, 2005.

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• The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

  Ethan Hawke

  Successful, Intelligent, Unique

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.

  Conor Oberst

  Bags, Bus, Exploding

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• We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure... When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

  Christie Brinkley

  Trying, Possibility, Term

  "Good Housekeeping" Magazine, Volume 226, 1998.

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• In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

  Paul Reiser

  Dad, Guy, Different

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• If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Player, Nhl, Eric

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• Peter Norman's a man's man.

  John Carlos

  Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Song, Heart, Eye

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• You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

  Merle Travis

  Soul, Debt, Another Day

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• Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.

  Karl Schroeder

  Book, Taken, Ideas

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• [Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

  John Carlos

  Strong, Character, Pride

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• [Peter Norman]was born and raised under the auspices of his mom and dad being involved in the Salvation Army. He believed in humanity. At all costs, he believed in humanity.

  John Carlos

  Mom, Dad, Army

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• I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

  John Carlos

  Men, Australia, People

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• Peter [Norman] never denounced us, he never turned his back on us, he never walked away from us, he never said one thing against what he stood for in Mexico City, and that was freedom, justice and equality for all God's people.

  John Carlos

  Cities, People, Justice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.

  John Carlos

  Missing, World, Way

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• Peter [Norman] never vacated from himself as to who he was.

  John Carlos

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• I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

  John Carlos

  Growing Up, Thinking, Grows

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• Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

  George Sampson

  Letters, Feminine, Grew Up

  "12 Sick Burns From People Who Didn’t Get The Jane Austen Hype" by Sara Boboltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2015.

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• Peter's faith had many a shaking, but it was established upon the truth of his God, upon the person and work and righteousness of Jesus Christ.

  E. W. Bullinger

  Jesus, Christ, Righteousness

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• The old priest Peter Gilligan
  Was weary night and day;
  For half his flock were in their beds,
  Or under green sods lay.

  William Butler Yeats

  Night, Bed, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.137, Penguin

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• Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of image and detail. Try taking walks as you are reading this book- the dazzle of landscapes, inner and outer, feel replenished and rich. This is language and vision I want to come home to again and again.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Book, Reading, Home

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• Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

  James M. Barrie

  Play

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• Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Taken, Hands

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• The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Sight, Rome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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