Peggy Whitson Quotes
You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.
Quotes to Explore
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
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I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.
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I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
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We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.
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"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."
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You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.
