Peggy Whitson Quotes
Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.
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Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
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Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.
