Quote by Peter Agre
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. – Peter Agre

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The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. – Peter Agre

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Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre

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Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. – Peter Agre

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I love playing a dad. Its hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny. – Peter Gallagher

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My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think theres a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work. – Leslie Bibb

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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. – Charley Pride

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Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker… anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt. – Frank Bruno

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