Peggy Whitson Quotes

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

Peggy Whitson

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• The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Free

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Deserve
  • Congress
  • Table

• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Men
  • Parents
  • Brother

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Mean
  • Restaurant
  • Belong

• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Motivated

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Good
  • God
  • Love

• You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

  

  Raf Simons
  • You
  • Being
  • Without

• When I see something, I go for it.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • See
  • Something
  • Go For It

• The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

  

  Homer
  • Friend
  • Brother

• I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Fate
  • Duty

• People have seen the Modi government's track record, and now they believe that if we say something, it will happen.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • People
  • Believe

• I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it's like telling the American people or half the American people that don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Idea
  • Demon
  • Social policy

• When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Space
  • Friend