Peggy Johnson Quotes

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

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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 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

• There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • God
  • Mother
  • Stop

• I don't think I underestimated [Vladimir Putin], but I think that I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age, it is possible for misinformation for cyber hacking and so forth to have an impact on our open societies, our open systems, to insinuate themselves into our democratic practices in ways that I think are accelerating.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Practice

• The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Powerful
  • Human
  • Idea

• With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Feelings
  • Accepting
  • Fallen

• Who peppered the highest was surest to please.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Great
  • School
  • Job

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

  

  Peggy Johnson