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 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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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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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.
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It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.
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One can only be staggered by the hubris of modern artists if we compare them, say, to the humble builders of Chartres Cathedral whose names are not even known. The artist ought to be distinguished by selfless devotion to duty; but we forgot about that a long time ago.
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Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
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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.
