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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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'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.
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We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.
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What if she let falling in love with him be as natural as gravity?
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Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
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You learn to do by doing. You learn to be by being.
