H. Burke Peterson Quotes
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
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Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
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If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
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I listen to a lot of Solange. I love old-school as well.
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I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
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I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.
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God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
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You learn to do by doing. You learn to be by being.
