Peter Agre Quotes
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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My grandma's into music. My mom is a singer. Even my sister is a much better singer than I am. So you could say music runs in the family.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
