Peggy Johnson Quotes

Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.

Peggy Johnson

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I know people who have literally quit their jobs to spend more time with their children, and I go, 'Wow,' my dad used to go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and he'd come back at 7:30 and we'd kind of see him walk in and then he'd go upstairs and suddenly he'd be in a T-shirt and grumpy. There wasn't much in the way of conversation that went on.

Jimmy Kimmel

WorkMorningChildrenTimeWalk

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

Andrew Tobias

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After I came out to my mother at 17, I ran away from home and lived with a friend. We come from a highly religious family, and she could not accept it. It was devastating, and I was depressed.

Angelica Ross

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I really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

Ann Callis

GreatThinkYouAccomplishCountry

I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.

Amy Heckerling

ConfidenceStylishHatsYouNever

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Sophocles

LifeMoneyLongPlaceStriveTake

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.

Spalding Gray

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I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Tori Amos

I AmInfluenceDevilYouWorstYour

People are stubborn about what they perceive to be the right thing or the wrong thing, and it takes a long time to filter this human condition. There's a waiting period until people catch up. But if you have patience - which it takes when someone thinks differently from you - everybody always catches up. That patience is a wonderful virtue.

Johnny Mathis

PatienceTimeWaitingPeopleSomeone

To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.

Jonathan Anderson

FurnitureFantasyAlwaysMineBeen

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

Chris Klein

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I think making friends you can work with is a skill like any other, developing those particular kinds of intimacies. They're intimacies like any other, but they grow in a definite direction, not just willy-nilly like normal friendships.

Sheila Heti

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