Peggy Johnson Quotes

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

Peggy Johnson

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• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • American
  • Chinese

• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

  

  Sam Walton
  • America
  • More
  • Anybody

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Way
  • Prayer

• This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Effort
  • Feel
  • Performance

• Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Fighting
  • Gay

• The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Find

• I like having curves - I'm proud of them!

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Proud
  • Like
  • Curves

• If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Model

• While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Busy
  • Greater
  • Little Things

• Lo, this great work, a Temple to thy praise,On polisht Pillars of strong Verse I raise!A Temple, where if Thou vouchsafe to dwell,It Solomons, and Herods shall excel.Too long the Muses-Land have Heathen bin;Their Gods too long were Dev'ils, and Vertues Sin;But Thou, Eternal Word, hast call'd forth MeTh' Apostle, to convert that World to Thee;

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• A scorching blast of golden fire as it slowly leaves the groundTears away with a mighty forceThe air is shattered by the awesome sound - Countdown (1982)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Air
  • Fire
  • Awesome

• Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • American

• The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Happy

• The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.

  

  Chris Evans
  • People
  • World
  • Mother

• I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.

  

  SZA
  • Different
  • Small
  • Rest

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

  

  Edward Smith
  • Imagine
  • Disaster
  • Vessel

• When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Young

• You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

  

  Peggy Johnson