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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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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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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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.
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It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
