Peter McWilliams Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.
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You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations.
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I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
