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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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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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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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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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
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I want to win too bad.
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I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.
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'If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.'
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There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
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I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.
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Without it. The catch would just be a catch.
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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.
