Bre Pettis Quotes
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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It took me a long time to be able to write for the 'New Yorker,' and for me, that has been the best job. I live a very conventional life, but reporting for the magazine has allowed me to do things I would never otherwise do, such as investigating a criminal conspiracy in Guatemala or trekking through the Amazon looking for a lost city.
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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
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We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.
