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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I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.
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We Houstonians, generally speaking, are hearty. The weather's too hot for us not to be.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.
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It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.