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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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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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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I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
