Bernadette Peters Quotes
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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If nothing else, I have money.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
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It’s even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.