Peggy Johnson Quotes

We look for partners who are solving a problem for us. If they've already solved it, we'd much rather try to partner with them than try to rebuild it.

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• An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Favorite
  • White
  • Egg

• We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Peace
  • Religion
  • Harmony

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Song
  • Player
  • Guitar

• I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • House
  • White
  • White House

• Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Never
  • Sorry
  • Satisfied

• To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • California
  • Taxes

• I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Women
  • Years
  • Opportunities

• What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Way
  • Feels

• People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • American
  • True
  • Law

• The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Study

• I gave you my life, you gave me my life. Like a gush of wind in my hair. Why do we forget what's been said And play the game of life with our hearts?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Why
  • Game

• I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.

  

  Katherine Webb
  • Up
  • Girl

• Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

  

  Dan Harris
  • Happiness
  • Revolution
  • Train

• People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.

  

  Windham Rotunda
  • People
  • Dressed
  • Rewarding

• I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Song

• As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Long
  • Attitude

• Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • History
  • Today
  • Partner

• We look for partners who are solving a problem for us. If they've already solved it, we'd much rather try to partner with them than try to rebuild it.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Partner