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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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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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 laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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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 door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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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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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.
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Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
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Respect for the God-given dignity of every human being, no matter their race, ethnicity or other circumstances of their birth, is the essence of American patriotism. To believe otherwise is to oppose the very idea of America.
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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.
