Peter Lewis Allen Quotes
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Gymnastics does take great focus and concentration. What I do is look to my coach. He keeps me focused. And I meditate to get myself confident before the competition floor. That helps keep me focused, too.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.
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Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
