Peggy Whitson Quotes
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.
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Ferrari gives you a special feeling.
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
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Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
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My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
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In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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I'd have to say that Muay Thai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.
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Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.
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Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.
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Good scripts are hard to find.
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Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.
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I don't sing in the shower.
