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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I'm blind without my glasses.
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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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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
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The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . .
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Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.
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Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.
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One of the astronauts I came to admire the most is John Young.
