Peter Lewis Allen Quotes
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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I live in the greatest city in the world for research.
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Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
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I love how music and fashion are so similar. We need each other.
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The Law is the Law!
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
