Peggy Whitson Quotes
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.
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Feminism’s claim that it discovered rape is simply false.
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She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.
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Russia and India both have a geopolitical interest in a peaceful and stable Asia, which would be relieved of outward pressure and would not harbour and suffer from extremists.... Russia and India must do their best so that international community's efforts in Afghanistan were not futile.
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I was kicked out of the house, and I was really difficult as a kid. I'm happy it happened because I was able to grow so much from it, you know? It's always hurtful to feel that you can't be on the same page with people that you love as much as your family. Sometimes they don't know how to deal with all the things that are coming at them.
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I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.
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I think that more and more and more really talented restauranteurs and chefs from the fine dining world are going to try their hand at fine casual. They're going to say, 'Why not us?'
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
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A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.
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There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
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I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.
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Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates that which we all know - the World - is connected in a system of networks - and I'm not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.
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One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.
