Cassandra Peterson Quotes
I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.
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You saw how long the grass was, it was very long and it spoiled the game.
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Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity.
