Peter Agre Quotes
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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There's more to me than fashion. I just don't want to be seen as fashion.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.
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My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it was a political satire show. It started on Internet by three, four-minute episodes, and then it evolved into a live show in a theater, which was something that was unprecedented in the Arab world.
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.
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After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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Luck favors the brave.
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This book is gaudy like a gilded cauliflower which smells so bad after a good hot water soaking, like hot chocolate sweetened with sugar beet / incompatibles blended incongruously to no purpose.
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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
