Peggy Johnson Quotes
To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I like to discover new things.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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I never set money as a goal. It was a result.
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It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.
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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.
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To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.
