Andrew Peterson Quotes
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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Not once did I feel pressurised that I was stepping into Mr. Bachchan's shoes. I don't say I didn't feel the pressure of starring in a remake of 'Zanjeer,' but somewhere, that worked to my advantage.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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My mother Earth!And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye.And thou, the bright eye of the universe,That openest over all, and unto allArt a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
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I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
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Activists can improve their alternative media success by embracing alternative currencies like Bitcoin.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
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Winter is where hope lies happy.
