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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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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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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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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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 see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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While there's life, there's fear.
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Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.
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Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
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I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.
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Is the human race a universal constructor?
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I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.
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We'd certainly have paid leave already by now, we'd have equal pay, we'd have a living minimum wage - a lot of things would change having that diversity of opinion in Washington. We certainly wouldn't be debating whether women should have access to birth control.
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Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.
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Being athletic has really become a big part of my career.
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I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
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I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.
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You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.
