Peter Buck Quotes
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I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
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The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
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We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
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I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
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The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.
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'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
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We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.
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I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.
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Digg will serve as a means of gathering metrics for third party websites, providing them insights into who's digging their content, who they are spreading it to.
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Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.
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We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.
