Peggy Fleming Quotes
My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
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The Pork Marketing Board worked with advertising and marketing firms to position the pig as a sort of four-legged chicken - a healthy part of any low-fat lifestyle. The Other White Meat campaign launched in 1987 and was so successful at selling lean pork cuts, it actually hurt the rest of the pig.
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My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.
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The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
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My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.
