Peggy Whitson Quotes
A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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I hate birthdays.
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As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
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Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.
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I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
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I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.
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This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.
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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
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A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.
