Peter Agre Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.
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Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.
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Communities have changed. Our society is changing. Sometimes I feel like our law enforcement, the public services, they don't have enough resources to keep up with the changes that we see in our society.
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Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.
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Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
