Peggy Fleming Quotes

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

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• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Woman

• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Never
  • Guess

• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Power
  • Focus

• Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Language

• Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Belief

• I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Energy
  • Team
  • Positive

• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • America
  • War
  • Military

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Teacher
  • Brother
  • Sister

• I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

  

  Kaki King
  • You
  • Learn
  • Guitar

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Fire
  • Yourself

• I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Focus

• A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Think
  • Me
  • Crazy

• There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Worship

• Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Cause
  • Clinic

• If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Interesting
  • Helpful

• I don't think that one should beat himself or herself over the head if immediately you're not like Jesus Christ or, you know, Gandhi or whoever. But I think the idea is to... to look at those examples and try to... try to operate in a way that every day you live or every interaction you have pushes you further along to operating with that mindset.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Jesus Christ
  • Interaction
  • Pushes

• We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

  

  Peggy Fleming