Pierre Nanterme Quotes
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
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It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.
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A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
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For I am the size of what I see not my height's size.
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'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
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Gays have got to be pro-life. As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are going to start aborting.
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Dear La Virgen, [...] is God your husband? Is he a Cheap Skate???? I kinda think he might be cause I used to pray for stuff and he never sent the stuff I asked for right?
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As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.
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You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.
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I don't need to move my body. I need to move my ideas.
